Anamorphic Authorship in Canonical Film Adaptation A Case Study of Shakespearean Films /

• Main Author: Geal, Robert (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
• Subjects: Motion pictures.; Literature, Modern.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Adaptation Studies.; Shakespeare.

This book develops a new approach for the study of films adapted from canonical 'originals' such as Shakespeare's plays. Departing from the current consensus that adaptation is a heightened example of how all texts inform and are informed by other texts, this book instead argues that...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• Part I: From Barthesian and Bakhtinian to Benvenistene Adaptation Studies: Theories of Film Adaptation
• 2. Dialogism and the Radical Text
• 3. Poststructuralism and the Radical Critic
• 4. The Dead Author and the Concealed Author
• Part II: The Drama of Authorship: A Taxonomy of Anamorphic Authorship
• 5. 'Fainomaic' Adaptation from the Verbal to the Visual
• 6. 'Állagmic' Adaptation from Shakespearean to Non-(/Less-)Shakespearean Settings
• 7. The Drama of Foreknowledge
• 8. The Drama of the Diegetic Author
• 9. Conclusion.