The Scandal of Adaptation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031141522)

The essays in this volume seek to expose the scandals of adaptation. Some of them focus on specific adaptations that have been considered scandalous because they portray characters acting in ways that give scandal, because they are thought to betray the values enshrined in the texts they adapt, because their composition or reception raises scandalous possibilities those adapted texts had repressed, or because they challenge their audiences in ways those texts had never thought to do. Others consider more general questions arising from the proposition that all adaptation is a scandalous practice that confronts audiences with provocative questions about bowdlerizing, ethics, censorship, contagion, screenwriting, and history. The collection offers a challenge to the continued marginalization of adaptations and adaptation studies and an invitation to change their position by embracing rather than downplaying their ability to scandalize the institutions they affront.

Author: Thomas Leitch
ISBN-10: 3031141520
ISBN-13: 9783031141522
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 04/22/2023
Pages: 286
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d