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.

< I can hardly do more than express my unqualified enthusiasm for this proposal. This will be a brilliant handbook, addressing both the 'state-of-the-art' roots in the field and all the new leaves and promising branches. If I were the decision-maker at OUP, I'd go ahead with this. Asap. -Eckart Voigts-Virchow, Professor of English Literature, University of Siegen (Germany) < Thomas Leitch is an admirably lucid, intelligent commentator with an exemplary grasp of adaptation studies in all this sub-discipline's complexity... [T]his proposal is compelling and makes a strong case for a new collection of essays on adaptation studies in what has become an increasingly crowded field.> -Ken Gelder, Professor of English, University of Melbourne < Your questionnaire does NOT ask me for an opinion of Leitch's ability to make this project work, but I feel I would be remiss if I did not say something about this... You could have no one better editing a 'Companion' volume on this timely subject. It will be a must-have volume.> -R. Barton Palmer, Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature, Clemson University

• TABLE OF CONTENTS Notes on ContributorsThomas Leitch, Introduction I. Foundations of Adaptation Study1. 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 Ephemerality4. Dennis Cutchins, Bakhtin, Intertextuality, and Adaptation5. David T. Johnson, Adaptation and Fidelity 6. Mar H. Snyder, Adaptation in Theory and Practice: Mending the Imaginary Fence II. Adapting the Classics7. Wendy Zierler, Midrashic Adaptation: The Ever-Growing Torah of Moses 8. Dennis Perry, The Recombinant Mystery of Frankenstein: Experiments in Film Adaptation9. 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 Elegy12. William B. Jones, Jr., Classics Illustrated and the Evolving Art of Comic-Book Literary Adaptation III. Adapting the Commons13. Robert Stam, Revisionist Adaptation: Transtextuality, Cross-Cultural Dialogism, and Performative Infidelities14. Lucia Krämer, Adaptation in Bollywood15. Constantine Verevis, Remakes, Sequels, Prequels 16. Eckart Voigts, Recombinant Adaptation: Remix, Mashup, Parody IV. Adaptation and Genre17. Linda and Michael Hutcheon, Adaptation and Opera18. 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 Telenovelas21. 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 Legacy23. 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 Intertextuality26. Claus Clüver, Ekphrasis and Adaptation 27. Kate Newell, Adaptation and Illustration: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach28. 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 Disciplines32. 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 Adaptation36. Marty Gould, Teaching Adaptation37. Keith Wilhite, Adaptation and Revision38. Peter Lev, How to Write Adaptation History39. Kamilla Elliott, Adaptation Theory and Adaptation Scholarship 40. Thomas Leitch, Against Conclusions: Petit Theories and Adaptation Studies