The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies

Thomas Leitch is Professor of English at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to Passion of the Christ, and the coeditor of the forthcoming A Companion to Hitchcock Studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors
Thomas Leitch, Introduction

I. Foundations of Adaptation Study
1. Timothy Corrigan, Defining Adaptation
2. Glenn Jellenik, On the Origins of Adaptation, as Such: The Birth of a Simple Abstraction
3. Renata Kobetts Miller, Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Adaptations of Novels: The Paradox of Ephemerality
4. Dennis Cutchins, Bakhtin, Intertextuality, and Adaptation
5. David T. Johnson, Adaptation and Fidelity
6. Mar H. Snyder, Adaptation in Theory and Practice: Mending the Imaginary Fence

II. Adapting the Classics
7. Wendy Zierler, Midrashic Adaptation: The Ever-Growing Torah of Moses
8. Dennis Perry, The Recombinant Mystery of Frankenstein: Experiments in Film Adaptation
9. Eirik Frisvold Hanssen, Silent Ghosts on the Screen: Adapting Ibsen in the 1910s
10. Mieke Bal, Intership: Anachronism Between Loyalty and the Case
11. Jack Boozer, The Intratextuality of Film Adaptation: From The Dying Animal to Elegy
12. William B. Jones, Jr., Classics Illustrated and the Evolving Art of Comic-Book Literary Adaptation

III. Adapting the Commons
13. Robert Stam, Revisionist Adaptation: Transtextuality, Cross-Cultural Dialogism, and Performative Infidelities
14. Lucia Krämer, Adaptation in Bollywood
15. Constantine Verevis, Remakes, Sequels, Prequels
16. Eckart Voigts, Recombinant Adaptation: Remix, Mashup, Parody

IV. Adaptation and Genre
17. Linda and Michael Hutcheon, Adaptation and Opera
18. Mike Ingham, Popular Song and Adaptation
19. Richard Hand, Radio Adaptation
20. Stijn Joye, Daniël Biltereyst, and Fien Adriaens, Telenovelas and/as Adaptations: Reflections on Local Adaptations of Global Telenovelas
21. Álvaro Hattnher, Zombies Are Everywhere: The Many Adaptations of a Subgenre
22. Wendy Siuyi Wong, The History of Hong Kong Comics in Film Adaptations: An Accidental Legacy
23. Dan Hassler-Forest, Roads Not Taken in Hollywood's Comic Book Movie Industry: Popeye, Dick Tracy, and Hulk
24. I.Q. Hunter, Adaptation XXX
25. Kevin M. Flanagan, Videogame Adaptation

V. Adaptation and Intertextuality
26. Claus Clüver, Ekphrasis and Adaptation
27. Kate Newell, Adaptation and Illustration: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach
28. Laurence Raw, Aligning Adaptation Studies with Translation Studies
29. Lars Elleström, Adaptation and Intermediality
30. Marie-Laure Ryan, Transmedia Storytelling as Narrative Practice
31. Kyle Meikle, Adaptation and Interactivity

VI. Adaptation Across Disciplines
32. Petr Bubenícek, Politics and Adaptation: The Case of Jan Hus
33. Defne Ursin Tutan, Adaptation and History
34. Brian Boyd, Making Adaptation Studies Adaptive
35. Nico Dicecco, The Aura of Againness: Performing Adaptation

VII. Professing Adaptation
36. Marty Gould, Teaching Adaptation
37. Keith Wilhite, Adaptation and Revision
38. Peter Lev, How to Write Adaptation History
39. Kamilla Elliott, Adaptation Theory and Adaptation Scholarship
40. Thomas Leitch, Against Conclusions: Petit Theories and Adaptation Studies