Adaptation and Beyond by Karpinski, Eva C.; Kębłowska-Ławniczak, Ewa;

Short description:

This collection focuses on recent adaptations that put hybridity, transtextuality, and transmediality at play. It reframes adaptation in terms "world-building," which accurately captures the complexity and multidirectionality of contemporary scattered practices of adaptation leading to the production of hybrid transtextualities

Long description:

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on recent adaptations, both experimental and popular, that put hybridity, transtextuality, and transmediality at play. It reframes adaptation in terms of the transmedia concept of "world-building," which accurately captures the complexity and multidirectionality of contemporary scattered and ubiquitous practices of adaptation.

The editors argue that the process of moving stories or their elements across different media platforms and repurposing them for new uses results in the production of hybrid transtextualities. The book demonstrates how hybrid textualities augment narrative and literary forms as goals of their world-building, finding unexpected sites of cross-pollination, expansion, and appropriation in spoken-word and dance performance, (auto)biographical comics, advertising, Chinese Kun opera, and popular song lyrics. This yoking of hybridity and transmediality yields not only diversified and often commercialized aesthetic forms but also enables the emergence a unique cultural space in-between, a mezzaterra capable of addressing current political issues and mobilizing broader audiences

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Hybrid Zones of Transtextual World-Building: Towards the Mezzaterra of Adaptation

Part I: Aesthetics and/as Politics in Hybrid Transtextual Adaptation

Chapter 1 - Macbeth, Macbeth: Beyond Adaptation, Towards Creative Critical Writing

Chapter 2 - Joycean Biographics as Hybrid Transmedia Adaptations: World-Building through Biographical Comics

Chapter 3 - Lost at Sea: Caroline Bergvall's Mapping of Early Medieval and Contemporary Maritime Migration

Part II: Repurposing "Classics"

Chapter 4 - Appropriating Biography: The Hybrid ‘Face’ of Shakespeare in Branagh’s All is True

Chapter 5 - Advertising as Adaptation: The Case of Romeo and Juliet

Chapter 6 - Re-Activating the Revenge Drama in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Part III: East-West Adaptation Flows

Chapter 7 - ‘Cobra Kai never dies’: Rebooting the Karate Kid Franchise for a 21st century YouTube and Netflix Audience

Chapter 8 - Hybrid Transtextualities: Triangulating Tang Xianzu’s Peony Pavilion, Traditional Chinese Kunqu Theatre, and Stan Lai’s Nightwalk in the Chinese Garden

Chapter 9 - Medial Transposition and Imitation in The Handmaiden

Chapter 10 - Transmedial Melodies: Music in Salman Rushdie’s Novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Index