From Fidelity to History

Description:

Scholarly approaches to the relationship between literature and film, ranging from the traditional focus upon fidelity to more recent issues of intertextuality, all contain a significant blind spot: a lack of theoretical and methodological attention to adaptation as an historical and transnational phenomenon. This book argues for a historically informed approach to American popular culture that reconfigures the classically defined adaptation phenomenon as a form of transnational reception.

subjects: History and criticism,  Film adaptations,  Motion pictures and history,  Motion pictures and literature,  Verfilmung,  Literatur