Adaptation, Authorship, and Contemporary Women Filmmakers

Shelley Cobb is Associate Professor in Film and English at the University of Southampton, UK. She has published widely in the areas of women filmmakers, adaptation and celebrity studies, and is the co-editor, with Neil Ewen, of First Comes Love: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship, and Cultural Politics (2015).

Acknowledgements Introduction: Agency, Adaptation and Authorship 1. Envisioning Judith Shakespeare: Collaboration and the Woman Author 2. Adapt or Die: The Dangers of Women's Authorship 3. Authorizing the Mother: Sisterhoods in America 4. Postfeminist Austen: by Women, for Women, about Women Conclusion: The Secret Life of Bees and Authorial Subversion Bibliography Endnotes