Pub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad029
Andrew Dix, Sara Read
Abstract This article offers the most sustained critical assessment to date of The Periwig-Maker (1999), a short-animated film that takes on the formidable challenge of adapting Daniel Defoe’s novel A Journal of the Plague Year (1722). After embedding both film and novel in intertextual webs that far exceed their putative relationship to each other, the article explores in detail two of the ways in which The Periwig-Maker transmutes its adapted text: first, its complex sound design, instantiating the plague’s soundscape that can only be faintly intimated in Defoe’s print-bound work; second, its gothic mode, hyperbolizing what is only one of a wide array of generic options followed in the Journal. The final section of the article extends the afterlives of both film and novel by considering them as fictions that, eerily, not only look backwards to the plague in the seventeenth century but forward to our own experience of deadly pandemic with COVID-19.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad032
Daria Goncharova
Abstract This essay examines the role that marketing played in shaping the audience’s reception and interpretation of Eric Hodgins’ Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (originally published in 1946 as a short story titled ‘Mr. Blandings Builds His Castle’) and its 1948 film adaptation. It argues that while the print versions—modeled after Hodgins’ own unfortunate experience with the housing market before the war—relied on the self-deprecating humour to appeal to urban audiences and ultimately promote caution and frugality, the film adaptation, released at the onset of the suburban sprawl, targeted white families newly entering the middle class and promoted equality through mass consumption mythos. Working in conjunction with its massive advertising campaign that involved the construction of seventy-three replicas of the Blandings’ dream house across the United States, the film adaptation blurred the enormous disparity between Blandings’ dream and the suburban reality of baby boomers by creating new sites of middle-class identification. By reading each adaptation of the original story against the period-specific ideological forces, I demonstrate how marketing, by structuring the audience’s interpretation, shapes the process and the product of adaptation.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-28DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad023
Nancy M West
Journal Article Gentleman Jaggers: The Real Innovation in FX’s Great Expectations and Why Critics Didn't See It Get access Nancy M West Nancy M West 504 Thilly Ave., USA Email: westn@missouri.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Adaptation, apad023, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apad023 Published: 28 September 2023
期刊文章绅士贾格斯:FX的伟大期望的真正创新，为什么评论家没有看到它访问Nancy M West Nancy M West 504 Thilly Ave.， USA电子邮件:westn@missouri.edu搜索作者的其他作品:牛津学术谷歌学者改编，apad023, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apad023出版:2023年9月28日
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Pub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad024
Emer McHugh
Journal Article Embodying Adaptation: Character and the Body Get access Christina Wilkins. Embodying Adaptation: Character and the Body.London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. pp. 184, £87.50. ISBN 978-3-031-08533-8 Emer McHugh Emer McHugh Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland e.mchugh@qub.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3011-3394 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Adaptation, apad024, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apad024 Published: 27 September 2023
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Pub Date : 2023-09-23DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad026
Yosr Dridi
Abstract The literature on authenticity in adaptation studies seems to be focused almost entirely on adaptations of either historical and (auto-)biographical literary texts or non-fiction narratives. The usual case studies are often generically limited to heritage and historical films, period dramas, documentaries, and biopics, to the exclusion of non-/anti-realist genres. However, there is more to adaptation than empirically and/or historically verifiable source texts, which warrants an examination of authenticity in adaptations of fantastical, science-fictional, and gothic fictions away from the fixation on historicity and veracity. This paper proposes an aesthetic (metadiscursive and experiential) outlook on authenticity in genre adaptations, namely George Miller’s adaptation of A. S. Byatt’s ‘The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye’, Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022); Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Ted Chiang’s ‘Story of Your Life’, Arrival (2016); and the different adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Metadiscursively, authenticity depends on the self-consciousness of artistic representation, the extent to which the source text and its cinematic adaptation acknowledge their status as fictional narratives and their representational, medium-specific limits and potentials. Experientially, authenticity is judged by the degree of audience immersion in the storyworld, the feeling (generated by diegetic techniques) that what they are watching is experientially plausible despite the implausibility of the genre itself. Without lapsing in excessive realism and verbatim fidelity, an authentic adaptation is heedful of the paradoxes surrounding authenticity itself in any fictional narrative, attentive to their aesthetic and thematic treatment in the source text, aware of the representational affordances of the literary and cinematic media, and capable of offering the audience an immersive experience.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-23DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad031
Jodie Coates
Abstract The Nightmare Before Christmas’ director, Henry Selick, tells us that watching the film should be like opening a pop-up book. Clean-cut silhouettes, fingerprints and grooves, hidden surprises, and playful subversiveness are as integral to Nightmare’s production design as they are typical of the pop-up book form. In this article, I will examine this symmetry and discuss how Selick’s vision of a living illustration connects to the range of paper-engineered transmedia toys, books, and seasonal tokens that the film inspired. An early example is A Super Pop-Up (1993)—a charming gift book which positions the reader as a pseudo-stop-motion-animator, bending over doublespread dioramas to slide paper-cut characters into position. More recently, Reinhart’s elaborate Petrifying Pop-Up for the Holidays (2018) showcases several contemporary devices that re-create specific filmic shots. Other notable Disney-endorsed merchandise includes a Pop-Up Advent Calendar (2019), featuring an impressively tall Gothmas-esque tree, and elegant pop-up Halloween and Valentine’s cards produced by Hallmark and Lovepop. Each item treads the line between spirited plaything and fragile ornament, theatrical spectacle, and interactive artwork—a blurring of binaries that echoes the experimental artistry of Nightmare and continues to delight both young fans and adult collectors. Perhaps unsurprisingly, creative fans also appreciate Nightmare’s suitability for paper-craft, sharing printable DIY templates and paper-cut fan-art. I will demonstrate how the Victorian flavour of Nightmare, the affordances of stop-motion, and the film’s stylistic and branding choices combine to emulate and elevate the nostalgic practice of ‘making Christmas’ from the humblest of materials—paper.
《圣诞夜惊魂》的导演亨利·塞利克告诉我们，看这部电影应该像打开一本立体书。清晰的轮廓，指纹和凹槽，隐藏的惊喜和有趣的颠覆性是噩梦的生产设计中不可或缺的一部分，因为它们是典型的立体书形式。在本文中，我将研究这种对称性，并讨论Selick对生活插图的看法如何与电影启发的纸工程跨媒体玩具，书籍和季节性标志联系起来。早期的例子是《A Super Pop-Up》(1993)——这是一本迷人的礼物书，它把读者定位为一个伪定格动画师，弯腰看两张展开的立体模型，把剪纸人物滑动到合适的位置。最近，莱因哈特精心制作的节日石化弹出式(2018)展示了几个当代设备，重现了特定的电影镜头。其他值得注意的迪士尼代言商品包括2019年的Pop-Up Advent Calendar，上面有一棵高得令人印象深刻的哥特式圣诞树，以及Hallmark和Lovepop制作的优雅的Pop-Up万圣节和情人节卡片。每一件物品都跨越了活泼的玩具和脆弱的装饰品、戏剧奇观和互动艺术品之间的界限——这是一种模糊的二元概念，与《噩梦》的实验艺术相呼应，并继续取悦年轻的粉丝和成年收藏家。也许不出所料，有创意的粉丝们也很欣赏噩梦的适合纸工艺，分享可打印的DIY模板和剪纸扇形艺术。我将展示《梦魇》的维多利亚风格，定格动画的支持，以及电影的风格和品牌选择如何结合起来，模仿和提升用最卑微的材料——纸“制作圣诞节”的怀旧做法。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad027
Ryan Borochovitz
Abstract Conference report for the 2023 Association of Adaptation Studies (AAS) conference, held at the University of Birmingham, on the theme of Authenticity and Adaptation.
2023年适应研究协会(AAS)会议报告，在伯明翰大学举行，主题为真实性与适应。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad030
Edward A Shannon
Abstract Mark Twain’s Becky Thatcher features very little in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. She mostly vanishes after Tom Sawyer, and even in that novel she speaks fewer than a thousand words of dialogue. She disappears from Twain’s work almost completely after Huckleberry Finn, where she receives a single mention. An insignificant character to academics, Becky appears in the scholarly record little more than she had in Twain’s fiction. This essay explores Becky Thatcher’s outsized role in cinematic, literary, and other adaptations across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Becky Thatcher’s literary half-life extends to clothing racks and gift shops, as well as in cinematic and literary adaptations and appropriations. These transformations map racial and sexual anxieties of several American generations. Minor though she may seem, Becky looms large in films, fiction, restaurants, tourist attractions, and all the ephemera produced from the marketing of successful fictional characters in a capitalist media landscape.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad028
Mckenzie Bergan
Abstract Adaptations possess an uncanny quality, especially when those adaptations are built on tragic narratives. When audiences see the same characters relive the same plots in different contexts, what was once familiar becomes unfamiliar, and a kind of haunting is produced. Adaptations that move across mediums from stage to film to video games carry an especially prominent potential for uncanniness. Using adaptations of Hamlet and specifically the video game, Elsinore, to track this evolution reveals that the temporal ambiguity that the uncanny adaptation produces within a tragic narrative carries the potential to enact ethical aims, while also suggesting a way forward in thinking about that narrative’s future. By first defining the uncanny adaptation and examining Elsinore as a case study, this article explores the ethical potential that is made possible through the uncanny elements of tragic adaptation.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad025
Joe Kember
Journal Article Adaptation Before Cinema: Literary and Visual Convergence from Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century Get access Lissette Lopez Szwydky and Glenn Jellenik, eds. Adaptation Before Cinema: Literary and Visual Convergence from Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. pp. XIV, 311, £119.99. ISBN 978-3-031-09595-5 Joe Kember Joe Kember J.E.Kember@exeter.ac.uk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Adaptation, apad025, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apad025 Published: 07 September 2023
期刊文章改编之前的电影:文学和视觉融合从古代到19世纪获得访问Lissette Lopez Szwydky和Glenn Jellenik，编辑。电影之前的改编:从古代到19世纪的文学和视觉融合。伦敦:Palgrave Macmillan出版社，2023年。第14页，311页，119.99英镑。ISBN 978-3-031-09595-5 Joe Kember Joe Kember J.E.Kember@exeter.ac.uk搜索作者的其他作品:牛津学术谷歌学者改编，apad025, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apad025出版日期:2023年9月7日
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