Queer/Adaptation

Pamela Demory is on the faculty of the University of California at Davis, USA. She has published numerous articles on both film adaptation and queer film and television, including “Queer Adaptation,” in The Routledge Companion to Adaptation Studies (2018).  She is the co-editor of Queer Love in Film and Television (Palgrave 2013) and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Popular Culture.

“Eschewing moralistic connotations associated with LGBTQ lives, here, promiscuity unyokes binaries of sexuality and gender, while alluding to the intellectual pleasure and possible ‘erotic charge’ of intertextual engagement. By extension, queer/adaptation scholarship should stimulate similar responses; so, in an act of critical promiscuity I read, viewed, or re-experienced all of the material I could locate, seeking pleasure by matching my observations with those of the essayists.” (David Pellegrini, Adaptation, August 14, 2020)

• 1. Queer/Adaptation: An Introduction, Pamela Demory.- Part I: Adapting as Queering/Queering as Adapting.- 2. Emancipating Madame Butterfly, Nick Bamford.- 3. Queering Agatha Christie: Barry Sandler’s Camp Adaptation of The Mirror Crack’d, Tison Pugh.- 4. The Queer Aesthetics of Tom Ford’s Film Adaptations: A Single Man and Nocturnal Animals, Scott Stoddart.- 5. Hannibal: Beginning to Bloom, Mat Daniel.- Part II: Bodies, Time and Space.- 6. Moonlight, Adaptation, and Queer Time, Pamela Demory.- 7. Adaptation as Queer Touching in The Safety of Objects: Transgressing the Boundaries of Bodies and Texts, Chiara Pellegrini.- 8. Fuck-Scripting: Becoming-Queer in Interior. Leather Bar, Jerry Thomas.- 9. Adapting Queer Shorts to Feature Films: Does Size Really Matter?, Whitney Monaghan and Stuart Richards.- 10. Transnational Slash: Korean Drama Formats, Boys’ Love Fanfic, and the Place of Queerness in East Asian Media Flows, John Lessard.- Part III: Queerer and Queerer: Promiscuity and Multiplicity.- 11. Queer Many Ways: Ulrike Ottinger’s Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse (1984), Shannon Brownlee.- 12. Blood Doubles: A Renegotiation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla on Film, Shelby Wilson.- 13. Hitchcock Goes to Italy and Spain: Euro-Horror and Queer Adaptation, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns.- 14. Dazzle, Gradually: A ‘Tru” Account of Adapting Capote’s In Cold Blood, Michael Perez.- 15. Willful Infidelities: Camping Camille, Jamie Hook.