Adapting Endings from Book to Screen: Last Pages, Last Shots (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

Synopsis

This book offers a new perspective on adaptation of books to the screen; by focusing on endings, new light is shed on this key facet of film and television studies. The authors look at a broad range of case studies from different genres, eras, countries and formats to analyse literary and cinematic traditions, technical considerations and ideological issues involved in film and television adaptions. The investigation covers both the ideological implications of changes made in adapting the final pages to the screen, as well as the aesthetic stance taken in modifying (or on the contrary, maintaining) the ending of the source text. By including writings on both film and television adaptations, this book examines the array of possibilities for the closure of an adapted narrative, focusing both on the specificities of film and different television forms (miniseries and ongoing television narratives) and at the same time suggesting the commonalities of these audiovisual forms in their closing moments. Adapting Endings from Book to Screen will be of interest to all scholars working in media studies, film and television studies, and adaptation studies.

Copyright:

2020

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9780429536557

Related ISBNs:

9780429260964, 9780367200688, 9780367200688

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

10/21/19

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Armelle Parey and Shannon Wells-Lassagne

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Armelle Parey

Edited by:

Shannon Wells-Lassagne