The scandal of adaptation. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Thomas Leitch.
• Editors: Leitch, Thomas M
• Contents: 1. Introduction.- 2. Succès de Scandale: From Adultery to Adulteration.- 3. Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street (1945): Designing for Scandal.- 4. Sweet Smell of Success: Noir adaptation 'in this crudest of all possible worlds'.- 5. On Incest and Adaptation: The Foundational Scandal of Cecilia Valdés.- 6. 'We Need More Input!': John Hughes's Weird Science (1985) and Scandals from the Red Scare to the Twitter Mob.- 7. Adaptation and Scandal in The Goldfinch.- 8. Scandalous Dystopias: Hyping The Last of Us Part II and Cyberpunk 2077 During the Pandemic.- 9. Bowdlerizing for Dollars, or Adaptation as Political Containment.- 10. (Re-)Writing the Pain: War, Exploitation, and the Ethics of Adapting Nonfiction.- 11. Adaptation and Censorship.- 12. Cinematic Contagion: Bereullin (The Berlin File, 2013).- 13. Periphery and Process: Tracing Adaptation Through Screenplays.- 14. The Narcissistic Scandal of Adapting History.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 700.457; Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Literature -- Adaptations -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031141539
• Related ISBNs: 9783031141522
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