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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"adaptation studies"”.
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The Comic(s) Shakespeare: <i>Kill Shakespeare</i> and Audience Experience in Adaptation Studies
… she briefly outlines in her book <i>A Theory of Adaptation</i>. Hutcheon suggests that when experiencing an adaptation, one may be a knowing audience member, someone that knows the adapted work, or an unknowing audience member, someone who is not familiar with an adapted work. Hutcheon proposes …
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'Disquiet' novella and screenplay : adaptation and creative hybridity
… by establishing that the traditional focus of adaptation studies has been book-to-film adaptation. Within this field the issue of ‘fidelity’ has been a dominant concern although it is hard to find any scholar who is actively arguing for fidelity. I look at types of adaptation and then outline …
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Beyond Prediction: Climate Change Adaptation, Science & Technology Studies (STS), and Transformational Change
Climate change adaptation is a priority for researchers, policymakers, and the public. Adaptation practices, however, have largely failed to keep pace with climate change risks and deliver the systemic changes required to reduce vulnerability. Critical scholarship has focused on conventional …
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Depoliticisation and Repoliticisation in Post-Colonial Indonesian Film Adaptations
… in post-colonial Indonesian film adaptations, primarily focusing on Blood and Crown of the Dancer (1983) and The Dancer (2011), the two adaptations of Ahmad Tohari’s novel The Dancer (1982). The investigation is motivated by a series of problems in adaptation studies, namely, the …
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Absorbing the Worlds of Others: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Adapted Screenplays
… Ruth Prawer Jhabvala are largely overlooked in adaptation studies. This is likely, in part, because her life and career are characterised by the paradox of being an outsider on the inside: whether that be as a European writing in and about India, as a novelist in film or as a woman in industry. …
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Virginia Woolf and cinema : Adaptations of Mrs Dalloway.
… a return to the issue of fidelity criticism in adaptation studies through a detailed consideration of the adaptations of Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway (1925). Within adaptation studies the issue of fidelity and the role of the source novel have been relegated to the sidelines in response to a …
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The Anxiety Of Evolution: Biological And Cultural Adaptation From Marcel Proust To Peter Greenaway
… inheritance of Darwinism in the fields of “adaptation studies,” “transmedia studies,” and “biocultural studies,” this dissertation assesses how evolution and its offshoots have been put to work by theorists and artists who have created, studied, and consumed works of art that blend and mix …
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Suzuki Tadashi's Intercultural Adaptations
… Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki’s intercultural adaptations, which adapt plays of the Western repertoire for contemporary Japanese and international audiences in a style that is richly and evocatively visual. Notions drawn from postdramatic theatre, metatheatre and postcolonial theories are …
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Practicing adaptation: one screenplay, five films
… adapted from an existing text) screenplay is an adaptation of this screenplay. In order to investigate the potential range of adaptations that occur during the process of film production, I commissioned a short screenplay which was made into a film five times, by five different production teams, …
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We are in Convergence: Intergenerational Synergies in Twenty-First-Century Children's Media Franchises
… franchised media economies, the field of adaptation studies has remained reluctant to engage with children’s media culture and its products, leaving the discussion to fall into the hands of scholars of children’s literature, wherein the field’s well-documented distrust of commercial media …
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Pharmacological studies of C. elegans cultured in axenic media: nicotine and its effects on growth, body morphology, and reproduction
… organism for pharmaceutical and environmental adaptation studies for decades. The primary culture method for raising C. elegans is to use bacterial Escherichia coli media plates. Using bacterial media can be resource intensive, result in turbidity for microscopy based assays, and bacterial …
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Die ongelooflike avonture van Afrikaanse filmaanpassings: filmic adaptations of Afrikaans literature with specific focus on novels, youth literature and stage plays
… South African culture is revised and included in studies of African cinemas. The unabashed subversiveness of Afrikaans filmmakers like Jans Rautenbach and Manie van Rensburg during the height of apartheid is often overlooked. Even though scholarship of Afrikaans cinemas is relatively limited, the …
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Adaptive auditory-motor control of the time-varying formant trajectories in vowels and its patterns of generalization
… gestures in monophthongs as found in previous studies, but also extends to time-varying gestures. To probe the internal structure of the mechanisms of auditory-motor transformations in speech, we tested the pattern of generalization of the adaptation trained on the triphthong /iau/ to other …
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Translation, gender in Disney’s live-action productions: a translation studies perspective on the representation of gender stereotypes in Pinocchio, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast
… is rewritten in Disney’s live-action adaptations of Beauty and the Beast (Condon 2017), Aladdin (Ritchie 2019), and Pinocchio (Zemeckis 2022), through the lens of Translation Studies. It draws on Lefevere’s theory of translation as rewriting, Butler’s theory of gender performativity, …
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Reimagining Shakespeare: A Journey through Vishal Bhardwaj's Trilogy
… Omkara (2006), and Haider (2014), cinematic adaptations of Macbeth, Othello, and Hamlet, respectively. This thesis seeks to provide a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of Bhardwaj’s adaptation process, examining the Shakespearean interpretation in Indian narratives. The study …
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Development of a crop model to examine crop management and climate change in Senegal
… Sahel. A new model, the Crop Model for Sahelian Adaptation Studies (CROMSAS), was developed to examine the influence of climatic variability, climate change and crop management strategies on millet yields. To improve the simulation of environmental stresses, several original features were …
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Adapting poetics : a fusion of ideas in literature to film adaptation
… to formulate and test an original idea in adaptation theory, one that exploits theproductive aspects of the two main tendencies in adaptation studies, fidelity and intertextuality. Thequestion that is addressed here is how the prioritization of a novel's poetics as the focal point for …
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The nature of appropriation: Eric Linklater's 'Juan in America'
… both texts, this thesis will use theories from adaptation studies to determine the appropriative relationship between the two texts. This dissertation will also suggest that the act of appropriation can extend beyond literary transposition, and that 'raw materials' – which Beaty states to be …
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Analyzing the Depiction of Women in Iranian Post-Revolutionary Film Adaptations
… Butler), cultural discourse (Hall, Foucault) and adaptation studies (Hutcheon, Sanders), I examine how Iranian directors indigenize non-Iranian female figures within cinematic narratives while navigating the censorial constraints of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (MCIG). By analyzing …
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'Little Red Riding Hood' in the 21st Century: adaptation, archetypes, and the appropriation of a fairy tale
… archetypal study considers the numerous adaptation processes and techniques involved in the transposition of the fairy tale from one medium to another, exploring post-2000 adult adaptations and appropriations of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ across a variety of high-art and popular media, such …
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