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Through the pioneering work of Claire Monk and others, adaptation studies has started to focus more on the ways in which filmgoers respond to the experience of witnessing adaptations. Drawing on the work of Annette Kuhn as well as Mark Duffett, this article calls for some kind of further convergence between adaptation studies and fan studies, not only to discover more closely the ways in which filmgoers consume adaptations both inside and outside the theater, but to allow for a more comprehensive definition of “adaptation” that extends beyond textual issues into more psychological and transformative aspects. The argument will be illustrated with case studies of the ways in which Austen adaptations in particular have been used to shape filmgoers’ lives.
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Raw, L. (2017). What Can Adaptation Studies Learn from Fan Studies?. In: Grossman, J., Palmer, R. (eds) Adaptation in Visual Culture. Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58580-2_2
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