Pub Date : 2022-07-23DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apac012
Christina Wilkins
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Pub Date : 2022-07-22DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apac009
Peter J. Smith
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Pub Date : 2022-07-22DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apac010
F. Zahedi
This paper will explore Shirin Neshat’s adaptation of Shahrnush Parsipur’s novel Women Without Men (1989). A primary focus will be on Neshat’s aesthetic choices related to the creation of space and the depiction of bodies and the extent to which they reflect her exilic condition. Another distinctive aspect to be explored concerns the dialectical relations in the film that visually depict gendered spaces inside homes and in public spaces. A related area here is the representation of an orchard as a heterotopian third space that gives shelter to wounded women. While both the novel and the film portray this orchard as a place of becoming, the film’s garden contains allegorical relations that portray it as a place of imaginary exile. Finally, the paper will argue that the portrayal of wounded female bodies is a political sign and a metaphor for women’s traumatic experiences of patriarchal culture.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apac008
J. Jeon
This article adopts a transnational approach to the practice of cross-gender casting and the queer fascination with women playing Shakespeare’s male roles. It offers a case study of the South Korean film Fantasy of the Girls (Jungmin Ahn, 2018), exploring the film’s both strategic transgression of gender norms and boundary-crossing adaptation in the transnational context. Fantasy of the Girls features an all-women school theatre group staging Romeo and Juliet and joins similar cross-cast Shakespeare productions in exploring the interaction between the narrative text and the actor’s gendered embodiment, including in terms of the potent effect of gender-transgressive casting on audiences. To trace the ways in which the film uses the device of cross-cast Shakespearean performance to consider young South Korean women’s queer desires, and to examine the special geo-cultural contexts at play, I turn to a distinctive form of queer youth culture which emerged in 1990s South Korea: iban. In this cultural practice, cross-dressing functions as a crucial means of identity production, as another, albeit implicit, reference underpinning the gender-nonconforming Hanam’s performance of Romeo. The coming-of-age film offers a reflection on the connection between the iban fantasy and Shakespeare’s text, which, in turn, provides a model for identity construction, through which the queer teen girls can voice and explore desires that are otherwise inexpressible. Ultimately, Fantasy of the Girls leverages Shakespeare to foreground the unique experiences of queer teen girls in twenty-first century South Korea.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apac007
Andrew Lynch
Released in 1978 and updated in 1990, the post-apocalyptic epic fantasy novel The Stand remains one of author Stephen King’s most significant works. The Stand tells a quasi-religious story of good and evil after the USA is devastated by a potent strain of influenza known as ‘Captain Trips’. Two camps of survivors emerge, one under the benevolent direction of an old woman named Mother Abigail, and the other lorded over by a devilish Tyrant named Randall Flagg. Like so much of King’s writing, it has been adapted to screen. It was first adapted into a four-part broadcast television miniseries event for broadcast network ABC in 1994. The Stand was adapted to television once again in 2020, this time as a limited series (nine episodes) for subscription video on demand (SVOD) service Paramount+ (formerly CBS All Access). This article uses these two adaptations of The Stand to examine the similarities and differences between two eras of US ‘quality’ television. ‘Quality TV’ describes a broad range of TV series, linked by their intention to be received as prestigious and therefore culturally valuable. By comparing two adaptations of the same original story, we can better understand how these series adapted from Stephen King’s work served and were shaped by the commercial and cultural imperatives of the broadcast and post-broadcast eras of US TV.
1978年出版、1990年更新的后世界末日史诗奇幻小说《生死决战》至今仍是作家斯蒂芬·金最重要的作品之一。在美国被一种被称为“旅行船长”的强效流感摧毁后,Stand讲述了一个准宗教的善恶故事。幸存者的两个阵营出现了,一个阵营在一位名叫阿比盖尔母亲的老妇人的仁慈指导下,另一个阵营由一个名叫兰德尔·弗拉格的恶魔暴君统治。和金的许多作品一样,这部小说也被搬上了银幕。1994年,它首次被ABC电视网改编成四集的电视迷你剧。《Stand》于2020年再次被改编成电视剧,这一次是作为订阅视频点播(SVOD)服务派拉蒙+(前身为CBS All Access)的限定剧(9集)。这篇文章用这两部《立场》的改编来考察两个时代美国“高质量”电视的异同。“高质量电视”指的是各种各样的电视连续剧,它们的目的是被认为是有声望的,因此具有文化价值。通过比较同一原著的两个改编版本,我们可以更好地理解这些改编自斯蒂芬·金作品的电视剧是如何服务于美国电视广播和后广播时代的商业和文化需求,并被其塑造的。
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apac002
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apac004
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apac005
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apac006
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apac003
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