Overview
- Considers how the power of adaptations to decenter authority poses a radical challenge to the idea of originality
- Challenges continuing assumptions about artistic originality, authorship, and the independent identity of artworks
- Explores adaptations’ potential to challenge assumptions about texts and cultures that produce and consume them
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture (PSADVC)
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The essays in this volume seek to expose the scandals of adaptation. Some of them focus on specific adaptations that have been considered scandalous because they portray characters acting in ways that give scandal, because they are thought to betray the values enshrined in the texts they adapt, because their composition or reception raises scandalous possibilities those adapted texts had repressed, or because they challenge their audiences in ways those texts had never thought to do. Others consider more general questions arising from the proposition that all adaptation is a scandalous practice that confronts audiences with provocative questions about bowdlerizing, ethics, censorship, contagion, screenwriting, and history. The collection offers a challenge to the continued marginalization of adaptations and adaptation studies and an invitation to change their position by embracing rather than downplaying their ability to scandalize the institutions they affront.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Reviews
“The Scandal of Adaptation, edited by Thomas Leitch, offers a new and provocative critical lens through which to view the processes of adaptation … . scandals of adaptation are not only expertly examined in this volume, but also each contributor pries open new areas of inquiry for scholars to explore other scandalous adaptations. … this collection’s novel framing of scandal alongside adaptation serves to thrust adaptation studies to the centre of the cultural conversation, where it belongs.” (Erica Moulton, Adaptation, November 25, 2023)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Thomas Leitch is Unidel Andrew B. Kirkpatrick, Jr. Chair in Writing at the University of Delaware, USA, where he teaches undergraduate courses on film and graduate courses on literary and cultural theory. His most recent books are The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies (2017) and The History of American Literature on Film (2019).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Scandal of Adaptation
Editors: Thomas Leitch
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14153-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14152-2Published: 22 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14155-3Published: 23 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-14153-9Published: 21 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2634-629X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6303
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 286
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Adaptation Studies