From the apparently simple adaptation of a text into film theatre or a new literary work to the more complex appropriation of style or meaning it is arguable that all texts are somehow connected to a network of existing texts & art forms In this new edition Adaptation & Appropriation explores multiple definitions & practices of adaptation & appropriation the cultural & aesthetic politics behind the impulse to adapt the global & local

Dimensions of adaptation the impact of new digital technologies on ideas of making originality & customization diverse ways in which contemporary literature theatre television & film adapt revise & reimagine other works of art the impact on adaptation & appropriation of theoretical movements including structuralism post-structuralism postcolonialism postmodernism feminism & gender studies the appropriation across time & across cultures of specific canonical texts by Shakespeare Dickens & others but also of literary archetypes such as myth or fairy tale Ranging across genres & harnessing concepts from fields as diverse as musicology & the natural sciences this volume brings clarity to the complex debates around adaptation & appropriation offering a much-needed resource for those studying literature film media or culture

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This boxset contains the following films Adaptation (Dir Spike Jonze) (2003) Lovelorn screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Cage) turns to his less talented twin brother Donald (also Cage) for help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book go nowhere Being John Malkovich (Dir Spike Jonze) (1999) While between jobs master puppeteer Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) takes a job as a filing clerk in an office building in New York City One day he discovers a strange door behind a filing cabinet a door which takes him into the mind of John Malkovich for 15 minutes then dumps him out on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike But what can one do with such a portal? Soon Craig is telling others sharing this unique experience For an admission fee perhaps ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Director Spike Jonze delivers a stunningly original comedy that seamlessly blends fictional characters & situations with the lives of real people obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche (Cooper) New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean (Streep) Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Cage) & his twin brother Donald (also Cage) As Charlie struggles to adapt Orlean&s best-selling book " The Orchid Thief" he writes himself into his own movie The various stories crash into one another exploding into a wildly imaginative film ADAPTATION the year&s most talked about movie is at once a hilarious drama & a moving comedy ...

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