Christa Albrecht-Crane; Dennis Cutchins sku-13353810 book

Adaptation Studies: New Approaches is a hardcover collection of essays listed under Christa Albrecht-Crane; Dennis Cutchins, sku-13353810, in Performing Arts Books. Fourteen scholars in adaptation studies, media studies and critical theory examine how works in different media borrow from and reinterpret one another.

The essays consider the social, economic, historical and authorial forces involved in particular adaptations, along with questions of fidelity, ethics and intertextuality. The collection argues that adapting a work requires interpretation and choices about which meanings, sensations, scenes, characters and plot elements to carry into the new medium.

It uses poststructural theory to examine adaptation across books, film, music and graphic novels. Examples include screen adaptations of Jane Austen and James Joyce, Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, David Lynch's Lost Highway and George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. The sections are Fidelity, Ethics, and Intertextuality; Literature, Film Adaptations, and Beyond; and Adaptation as Departure.

The collection presents adaptations as artistically productive exchanges that preserve differences between works and argues for a more central place for adaptation studies in criticism.