The study of adapting a novel or story for the stage or screen has become a specialty of its own. Here scholars of English literature, theater, art, and cinema explore concepts and examples in
the areas of fidelity, ethics, and intertextuality; literature, film adaptation, and beyond; and adaptation as departure. Among their topics are the resistance of adaptation studies to theory,
Oz adaptations and the matter of fidelity, visualizing metaphors in Brokeback Mountain, Jane Austen and the chick flick in the 21st century, language and emotion in Lubitsch's 1940 The Shop
Around the Corner, and approaching the multi-source adaptation and reexamining George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Some of the essays were delivered at American culture conferences.
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