Phyllis Frus is an associate professor of English and chair of the English department at Hawai‘i Pacific University. Christy Williams is an instructor of English at Hawai‘i Pacific University and a doctoral candidate at the University of Hawai‘i. She lives in Honolulu.

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• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction: Making the Case for Transformation      1. Borrowing a Melody: Jane Campion’s The Piano and IntertextualityPHYLLIS FRUS      2. Adaptation, The Orchid Thief, and the Subversion of Hollywood ConventionsDEVIN HARNER      3. Historical Figures Transformed: Free Enterprise and I, Tituba, Black Witch of SalemMARNI GAUTHIER      4. Post-Colonial Transformation: The Rejection of English in Gavin Hood’s TsotsiANNE M. REEF      5. Transforming Great Expectations: Dickens, Cuarón, and the BildungsromanANTJE S. ANDERSON      6. A Fuller Statement of the Case: Mary Reilly and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeLAURIE F. LEACH      7. Transforming Shakespeare: Neil Gaiman and The SandmanJULIA ROUND      8. On the Trail of the Butterfly: D. H. Hwang and TransformationDEBORAH L. ROSS      9. Wicked and Wonderful Witches: Narrative and Gender Negotiations from The Wizard of Oz to WickedALISSA BURGER      10. “Wonderland’s become quite strange”: From Lewis Carroll’s Alice to American McGee’s AliceCATHLENA MARTIN      11. Stories to Live By: Re-Framing Storytelling in the Arabian Nights MiniseriesJENNIFER ORME      12. Mulan: Disney’s Hybrid HeroineLAN DONG      13. Mass-Marketing “Beauty”: How a Feminist Heroine Became an Insipid Disney PrincessMARC DIPAOLO      14. Four Times Upon a Time: “Snow White” RetoldSTELLA BOLAKI      15. Mermaid Tales on Screen: Splash, The Little Mermaid, and AquamarineCHRISTY WILLIAMS      About the Contributors      Index