ISBN:
9781137443847
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (281 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Politics of Adaptation
DDC:
302.2/3
Keywords:
Globalization
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Mass media and culture
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Popular culture
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
〈p 〉In the age of globalization, digitization, and media convergence, traditional hierarchies between media are breaking down. This book offers new approaches to understanding the politics and their underlying ideologies that are reshaping our global media landscape, including questions of audience participation and transmedia storytelling
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Adapting the Past: Politics and History; 1 History as Adaptation; 2 Voyeuristic Revisionism? (Re-)Viewing the Politics of Neo-Victorian Adaptations; 3 Cultural Nostalgia, Orientalist Ideology, and Heritage Film; Part II Adapting Authorship: Politics and Convergence; 4 Emerging from Converging Cultures: Circulation, Adaptation, and Value; 5 Transmediality and the Politics of Adaptation: Concepts, Forms, and Strategies
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Bastards and Pirates, Remixes and Multitudes: The Politics of Mash-Up Transgression and the Polyprocesses of Cultural JazzPart III Adapting Postcolonialism: Politics and Race; 7 'Bergman in Uganda': Ugandan Veejays, Swedish Pirates, and the Political Value of Live Adaptation; 8 Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning and the Politics of Adaptation in African Literature; 8 Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning and the Politics of Adaptation in African Literature; 9 Michael Jackson and Afrofuturism: HIStory 's Adaptation of Past, Present, and Future; Part IV Adapting Nationality: Politics and Globalization
Description / Table of Contents:
10 The End of the Hollywood 'Rip-Off'? Changes in the Bollywood Politics of Copyright11 Adapting Tasmania: Terrorizing the Past; 12 Laibach's Subversive Adaptations; Part V Adapting Genre: Politics and Popular Culture; 13 Game of Thrones : The Politics of World-Building and the Cultural Logic of Gentrification; 14 You Think You Know the Story: Novelty, Repetition, and Lovecraft in Whedon and Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods; 15 Stop/Watch: Repressing History, Adapting Watchmen; Part VI Adapting the Body: Politics and Gender; 16 Biopolitics of Adaptation
Description / Table of Contents:
17 'Restrained Glamour': Joe Wright's Anna Karenina , Postfeminism, and Transmedia BiopoliticsIndex
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