Adaptation in Visual Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Rethinking the Field

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Film Novelization

      • Constantine Verevis

      Pages 3-19

   3. What Can Adaptation Studies Learn from Fan Studies?

      • Laurence Raw

      Pages 21-36

   4. The Task of the Adaptation Critic

      • Glenn Jellenik

      Pages 37-52

   5. Mind the Gaps

      • Thomas Leitch

      Pages 53-71

   6. Continuation, Adaptation Studies, and the Never-Finished Text

      • R. Barton Palmer

      Pages 73-99

   7. Unfilmable Books

      • Kamilla Elliott

      Pages 101-118

   8. A Dickensian Feast: Visual Culture and Television Aesthetics

      • Sarah Cardwell

      Pages 119-137

   9. Star Adaptations: Queen Biopics of the 1930s

      • Deborah Cartmell

      Pages 139-155

3. New Directions, Case Histories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Between a Sequel and a Market Crash: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

      • Jack Boozer

      Pages 159-174

   3. Dissolving Media Boundaries: The Interaction of Literature, Film, and Television in Tender Is the Night (1985)

      • Christine Geraghty

      Pages 175-191

   4. Fargos

      • Julie Grossman

      Pages 193-211

   5. Alfred in Wonderland: Hitchcock Through the Looking-Glass

      • Mark Osteen

      Pages 213-234

   6. Japanese Avant-garde and the Moga (“Modern Girl”)

      • Homer B. Pettey

      Pages 235-253

   7. The Worlds of Downton Abbey

      • Nancy M. West

      Pages 254-270

4. Back Matter

   Pages 271-285

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This book gathers together essays written by leading scholars of adaptation studies to explore the full range of practices and issues currently of concern in the field. The chapters demonstrate how content and messaging are shared across an increasing number of platforms, whose interrelationships have become as intriguing as they are complex. Recognizing that a signature feature of contemporary culture is the convergence of different forms of media, the contributors of this book argue that adaptation studies has emerged as a key discipline that, unlike traditional literary and art criticism, is capable of identifying and analyzing the relations between source texts and adaptations created from them. Adaptation scholars have come to understand that these relations not only play out in individual case histories but are also institutional, and this collection shows how adaptation plays a key role in the functioning of cinema, television, art, and print media. The volume is essentialreading for all those interested both in adaptation studies and also in the complex forms of intermediality that define contemporary culture in the 21st century.

• adaptation studies
• contemporary culture
• 21st Century
• intermediality
• convergence
• media
• cinema
• television
• art
• print

“This comprehensive study of Highsmith adaptations covers work from the entirety of the author’s career and includes interviews with film directors (among them Wim Wenders) as well as investigating Highsmith adaptations in relation to dualisms, queer cinema, and noir. … The Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture series already contains many examples of this maxim and provides the opportunity for many more to come.” (Peter Lewis, Adaptation, Vol. 13 (1), 2019)

“At last, here is a collection of lively, practical studies that treat adaptation in a flexible, almost Darwinian sense, showing the many ways in which artistic culture perpetuates, survives, evolves and innovates. The book is also welcome because it embraces such a rich variety of movingimage media.” (James Naremore, author of Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge, 2017)

“If there was any question that adaptation studies is one of the most vibrant intellectual arenas today, this collection leaves no doubt with its lively exploration of new texts, new films, and, most importantly, new critical perspectives and debates.” (Timothy Corrigan, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, English, and History of Art, The University of Pennsylvania, USA)

• Le Moyne College, Syracuse, USA

  Julie Grossman

• Department of English, Clemson University, Clemson, USA

  R. Barton Palmer

R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature and Director of the World Cinema program at Clemson University, USA. 


Julie Grossman is Professor of English and Communication and Film Studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY, USA

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