Screen Adaptation Impure Cinema

Adaptation studies has historically been neglected in both the English and Film Studies curricula. Reflecting on this, Screen Adaptation celebrates its emergence in the late 20th and 21st centuries and explores the varieties of methodologies and debates within the field. Drawing on approaches from genre studies to transtexuality to cultural materialism, the book examines adaptations of both popular and canonical writers, including William Shakespeare, Jane Austen and J.K.Rowling. Original and provocative, this book will spark new thinking and research in the field of adaptation studies. Mapping the way in which this exciting field has emerged and shifted over the last two decades, the book is also essential reading for students of English Literature and Film.

DEBORAH CARTMELL is Subject Leader and Principal Lecturer in English, De Montfort University. She has published widely in the areas of Renaissance literature and Shakespeare, including Interpreting Shakespeare on Screen (Palgrave). Together with Imelda Whelehan she has co-edited a series on literature and film with Pluto Press which focuses on particular issues across the English / Film divide.

IMELDA WHELEHAN is Professor of English and Women's Studies at De Montfort University. She is the author of a number of undergraduate texts including Modern Feminist Thought (EUP), Fifty Key Concepts in Gender Studies (Sage) and Reading Bridget Jones' Diary (Continuum). Of all Cartmell and Whelehan's publications, their best-selling book is the collection of essays Adaptations: From Text to Screen, Screen to Text (Routledge 1999).

Introduction
PART 1: A HISTORY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FILM AND LITERATURE
Film on Literature
Literature on Film
PART 2: APPROACHES
The Narratological Approach: Les Liaisons Dangereuse
Taxonomies of Film Adaptation: Adapting Peter Pan
Reception: Audiences of Pride and Prejudice
Intertextuality: Harry Potter, Books and Films
PART 3: GENRES
Hollywood Conventions: Little Women
Romance: The Case of Rebecca
Science Fiction: The Case of Jurassic Park
Conclusions