Adaptation and the Avant Garde

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Adaptation and the Avant Garde
Author : William Verrone
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Publisher : A&C Black
Language : English
Release Date : 29 September 2011
ISBN : 9781441163523
Pages : 290 pages
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Providing a fresh angle on adaptation studies, this study looks at how avant-garde directors and filmmakers have treated literary works in distinct ways.

Adaptation and the Avant Garde

Providing a fresh angle on adaptation studies, this study looks at how avant-garde directors and filmmakers have treated literary works in distinct ways.

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This is a comprehensive collection of original essays that explore the aesthetics, economics, and mechanics of movie adaptation, from the days of silent cinema to contemporary franchise phenomena. Featuring a range of theoretical approaches, and chapters on the historical, ideological and economic aspects of adaptation, the volume reflects today’s

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Twentieth century Adaptations of Macbeth

The book traces individuals' adaptive interventions in the cultural sphere. More specifically, it investigates the purposes of dramatic adapting, which is basically regarded as a political activity. Following the intense micropolitical combat of an author with the precursor Shakespeare, adaptation becomes comprehensible as part of the ceaseless motions of macrocultural

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