Adaptation in Contemporary Culture

Rachel Carroll is Principal Lecturer and Subject Group Leader in English Studies at the University of Teesside, UK.

"This is a fresh and exciting collection of essays. Its embrace of different media - ranging from film, television, and performance, through visual documents such as maps and photographs, through to digital technologies - extends our understanding of adaptation as a field of study." - Julie Sanders, Professor of English Literature and Drama, University of Nottingham, UK

• 1. Introduction: Textual infidelities, Rachel Carroll (University of Teesside, UK); Part I: Remaking fidelity; 2. Heavy bodies, fragile texts: stage adaptation and the problem of presence, Frances Babbage (University of Sheffield, UK); 3. Reflections on the surface: remaking the postmodern with van Sant's Psycho, Catherine Constable (Warwick University, UK); 4. Affecting fidelity: adaptation, fidelity and affect in Todd Haynes's Far From Heaven, Rachel Carroll (University of Teesside, UK); 5. The folding text: Doctor Who, adaptation and fan fiction, Christopher Marlow (University of Lincoln, UK); Part II: After-images; 6. 3:10 again: a remade Western and the problem of authenticity, Pete Falconer (Warwick University, UK); 7. Child's play: participation in urban space in Weegee's, Dassin's and Debord's versions of Naked City, Joe Kember (University of Exeter, UK); 8. Charlotte's weblog: media transformation and the intertextual web of children's culture, Cathlena Martin (University of Florida, USA); 9. 'Stop writing or write like a rat': becoming animal in animated literary adaptations, Paul Wells (Loughborough University, UK); Part III: Reproducing the past; 10. Historicising the classic novel adaptation: Bleak House (2005) and British television contexts, Iris Kleinecke-Bates (University of Hull, UK); 11. Embodying Englishness: representations of whiteness, class and Empire in The Secret Garden, Karen Wells (Birkbeck College, UK); 12. Taming the velvet: lesbian identity in cultural adaptations of Tipping the Velvet, Heather Emmens (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada); 13. 'Who's the daddy?': the aesthetics and politics of representation in Alfonso Cuaron's adaptation of P.D James's Children of Men, Terryl Bacon and Govinda Dickman (University of the West of England, UK); Part IV: Afterlives; 14. Origin and ownership: stage, film and television adaptations of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, Rebecca D'Monte (University of the West of England, UK); 15. The post-feminist biopic: re-telling the past in Iris, The Hours and Sylvia, Josephine Dolan, Suzy Gordon and Estella Tincknell (University of the West of England, UK); 16. For the love of Jane: Austen, adaptation and celebrity, Brenda R. Weber (Indiana University, USA); 17. Glamorama, cinematic narrative and contemporary fiction, Ruth Helyer (University of Teesside, UK); Index.