Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the `Twilight` Series, Anne Morey

Название: Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the `Twilight` Series
ISBN: 1138271594 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138271593
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
Рейтинг:
Цена: 58170.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Much of the criticism on Stephenie Meyer's immensely popular 'Twilight' novels has underrated or even disparaged the books while belittling the questionable taste of an audience that many believe is being inculcated with anti-feminist values. Avoiding a repetition of such reductive critiques of the series's purported shortcomings with respect to literary merit and political correctness, this volume adopts a cultural studies framework to explore the range of scholarly concerns awakened by the 'Twilight novels and their filmic adaptations. Contributors examine 'Twilight's debts to its predecessors in young adult, vampire, and romance literature; the problems of cinematic adaptation; issues in fan and critical reception in the United States and Korea; and the relationship between the series and contemporary conceptualizations of feminism, particularly girl culture. Placing the series within a broad tradition of literary history, reception studies, and filmic adaptation, the collection offers scholars the opportunity to engage with the books' importance for studies of popular culture, gender, and young adult literature.

Автор: Fabiani Giannetto Raffaella
Название: Foreign Trends in American Gardens: A History of Exchange, Adaptation, and Reception
ISBN: 0813939291 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813939292
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 28430.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Foreign Trends in American Gardens addresses the influence of foreign, designed landscapes on the development of their American counterparts. Including essays from an array of significant scholars in landscape studies, this collection examines topics ranging from the importation of Western and Eastern styles of design and theoretical literature to the adaptation of specific plant types. As the variety of topics and influences discussed demonstrates, the essence of American gardens defies simple definition.Examining the translation, imitation, adaptation, and naturalization of stylistic trends and horticultural specimens into American gardens, the book also dwells on the juxtaposition of the foreign and the native. The volume’s contributors consider the experiences both of immigrants, who contributed through their writing, planting, and design efforts to enhance the character of regional gardens, and of Americans, who traveled abroad and brought back with them a passion for naturalizing exotics for scientific as well as aesthetic reasons. The complexity of American gardens—their combination of the historic and the modern, and of foreign cultures and local values—is also their most distinctive characteristic.

Автор: Fabiani Giannetto Raffaella
Название: Foreign Trends in American Gardens: A History of Exchange, Adaptation, and Reception
ISBN: 0813939135 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813939131
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 71150.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Addresses the influence of foreign, designed landscapes on the development of their American counterparts. Including essays from an array of significant scholars in landscape studies, this collection examines topics ranging from the importation of Western and Eastern styles of design and theoretical literature to the adaptation of specific plant types.

Автор: Perrault C.; adaptation - Heath J., Swan J.
Название: Classics 1: Little Red Riding Hood [Book with Audio CD(x1)]
ISBN: 9604031996 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789604031993
Издательство: Heinle ELT
Рейтинг:
Цена: 2840.00 T
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Contains a tale adapted for ELT. This title is in terms of vocabulary and grammar to reflect student`s capabilities at each level. It includes: full-colour illustrations alongside the text to support students in their reading; a picture glossary at the back to build up student`s vocabulary; a three-page activity section; and, an accompanying CD.

Автор: Burke Liam
Название: The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood S Leading Genre
ISBN: 1628462035 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781628462036
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 91960.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed into Hollywood's leading genre. From superheroes to Spartan warriors, The Comic Book Film Adaptation offers the first dedicated study to examine how comic books moved from the fringes of popular culture to the center of mainstream film production.Through in-depth analysis, industry interviews, and audience research, this book charts the cause-and-effect of this influential trend. It considers the cultural traumas, business demands, and digital possibilities that Hollywood faced at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The industry managed to meet these challenges by exploiting comics and their existing audiences. However, studios were caught off-guard when these comic book fans, empowered by digital media, began to influence the success of these adaptations. Nonetheless, filmmakers soon developed strategies to take advantage of this intense fanbase, while codifying the trend into a more lucrative genre, the comic book movie, which appealed to an even wider audience. Central to this vibrant trend is a comic aesthetic in which filmmakers utilize digital filmmaking technologies to engage with the language and conventions of comics like never before.The Comic Book Film Adaptation explores this unique moment in which cinema is stimulated, challenged, and enriched by the once-dismissed medium of comics.

Автор: Sun Hongmei
Название: Transforming Monkey: Adaptation and Representation of a Chinese Epic
ISBN: 0295743190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295743196
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 29260.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:

Able to shape-shift and ride the clouds, wielding a magic cudgel and playing tricks, Sun Wukong (aka Monkey or the Monkey King) first attained superstar status as the protagonist of the sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West (Xiyou ji) and lives on in literature and popular culture internationally. In this far-ranging study Hongmei Sun discusses the thousand-year evolution of this figure in imperial China and multimedia adaptations in Republican, Maoist, and post-socialist China and the United States, including the film Princess Iron Fan (1941), Maoist revolutionary operas, online creative writings influenced by Hong Kong film A Chinese Odyssey (1995), and Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel American Born Chinese.

At the intersection of Chinese studies, Asian American studies, film studies, and translation and adaptation studies, Transforming Monkey provides a renewed understanding of the Monkey King character as a rebel and trickster, and demonstrates his impact on the Chinese self-conception of national identity as he travels through time and across borders.

Автор: R. Barton Palmer
Название: Adaptation and Literary Cinema: 1959-72
ISBN: 162892487X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781628924879
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Рейтинг:
Цена: 84480.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Since the general entertainment model pioneered during the classic studio failed to continue to attract audiences sufficient to sustain the industry, niche production was the answer. Literary sources, screened in a fashion that emphasized their literariness, constituted one (if not the only) successful response of the industry to these changed conditions. Internationally-acclaimed scholar Barton Palmer illuminates the role played by adaptation in furthering a number of related cycles or more diffuse trends that were of central importance to the national cinemas in each case. During the 1960s, the 'Angry Young Men' movement in literature inspired its cinematic other in the British New Wave, while small-budget productions with adult subjects, as well as films modeled closely on the international art cinema. Adaptation and Literary Cinema is not on the adaptations themselves, but rather on the ways in which adaptation during this culturally turbulent era served two different but connected cinemas.Offering insights into the complex production histories of more than 40 key, if often underappreciated, texts through the discussion of relevant archival materials that identify the shaping pressures in each project. These films include Night of the Iguana, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Toys in the Attic, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Nothing but a Man, Mickey, The Hustler, Up the Down Staircase, Life at the Top, Darling, Morgan!, All Fall Down, The Collector, The Hill, The Magus, The Loved One, The Fox, The Sterile Cuckoo, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Ipcress File, Lord Jim, and King Rat.

Автор: R. Barton Palmer
Название: Adaptation and Literary Cinema: 1959-72
ISBN: 162892733X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781628927337
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Рейтинг:
Цена: 21110.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Since the general entertainment model pioneered during the classic studio failed to continue to attract audiences sufficient to sustain the industry, niche production was the answer. Literary sources, screened in a fashion that emphasized their literariness, constituted one (if not the only) successful response of the industry to these changed conditions. Internationally-acclaimed scholar Barton Palmer illuminates the role played by adaptation in furthering a number of related cycles or more diffuse trends that were of central importance to the national cinemas in each case. During the 1960s, the 'Angry Young Men' movement in literature inspired its cinematic other in the British New Wave, while small-budget productions with adult subjects, as well as films modeled closely on the international art cinema. Adaptation and Literary Cinema is not on the adaptations themselves, but rather on the ways in which adaptation during this culturally turbulent era served two different but connected cinemas.Offering insights into the complex production histories of more than 40 key, if often underappreciated, texts through the discussion of relevant archival materials that identify the shaping pressures in each project. These films include Night of the Iguana, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Toys in the Attic, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Nothing but a Man, Mickey, The Hustler, Up the Down Staircase, Life at the Top, Darling, Morgan!, All Fall Down, The Collector, The Hill, The Magus, The Loved One, The Fox, The Sterile Cuckoo, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Ipcress File, Lord Jim, and King Rat.

Автор: John Alberti, P. Andrew Miller
Название: Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age
ISBN: 0814344917 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814344910
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 71050.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age is an edited volume of eight essays that look at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic adaptation.The movie version of the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, premiered in 2001, in between publication of the fourth and fifth books of this global literary phenomenon. As a result, the production and reception of both novel and movie series became intertwined with one another, creating a fan base that accessed the series first through the books, first through the movies, and in various other combinations.John Alberti and P. Andrew Miller have gathered scholars to explore and examine the cultural, political, aesthetic, and pedagogical dimensions of this pop-culture phenomenon and how it has changed the reception of both the films and books.While the primary focus of the collection is an academic audience, it will appeal to a broad range of listeners. Within the academic community, Transforming Harry will be of interest to scholars and teachers in a number of disciplines, including film and media studies and English.

Автор: Catriona Firth
Название: Modern Austrian Literature through the Lens of Adaptation
ISBN: 9042035730 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789042035737
Издательство: Brill
Рейтинг:
Цена: 90320.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: For decades postwar Austrian literature has been measured against and moulded into a series of generic categories and grand cultural narratives, from nostalgic ‘restoration’ literature of the 1950s through the socially critical ‘anti-Heimat’ novel to recent literary reckonings with Austria’s Nazi past. Peering through the lens of film adaptation, this book rattles the generic shackles imposed by literary history and provides an entirely new critical perspective on Austrian literature. Its original methodological approach challenges the primacy of written sources in existing scholarship and uses the distortions generated by the shift in medium as a productive starting point for literary analysis. Five case studies approach canonical texts in post-war Austrian literature by Gerhard Fritsch, Franz Innerhofer, Gerhard Roth, Elfriede Jelinek, and Robert Schindel, through close readings of their cinematic adaptations, concentrating on key areas of narratological concern: plot, narrative perspective, authorship, and post-modern ontologies. Setting the texts within the historical, cultural and political discourses that define the ‘Alpine Republic’, this study investigates fundamental aspects of Austrian national identity, such as its Habsburg and National Socialist legacies.

Автор: Ronald Oberdeck, Gina Parham
Название: Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change
ISBN: 1622579356 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781622579358
Издательство: Nova Science
Рейтинг:
Цена: 110870.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: This book examines global climate models that predict increases over time in average temperature worldwide, with significant impacts on local patterns of temperature and precipitation. The extent to which such changes present a risk to food supplies, farmer livelihoods, and rural communities depends in part on the direction, magnitude, and rate of such changes, but equally important on the ability of the agricultural sector to adapt to changing patterns of yield and productivity, production cost, and resource availability. Study findings suggest that, while impacts are highly sensitive to uncertain climate projections, farmers have considerable flexibility to adapt to changes in local weather, resource conditions, and price signals by adjusting crops, rotations, and production practices. Such adaptation, using existing crop production technologies, can partially mitigate the impacts of climate change on national agricultural markets.

Автор: Boyd C. Clifford
Название: Archaeological Adaptation: Case Studies of Cultural Transformation from the Southeast and Caribbean
ISBN: 1621905225 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781621905226
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 66880.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Presents essays around the disciplinary theme of documentation and analysis of change. Contributors study excavations in Tennessee, Virginia, South Carolina, wider southern Appalachia, and the Caribbean, providing insight into Native American, African American, and English civilizations.