The Politics of Adaptation: Media Convergence and Ideology

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
History as Adaptation....Pages 7-20
Voyeuristic Revisionism? (Re-)Viewing the Politics of Neo-Victorian Adaptations....Pages 21-34
Cultural Nostalgia, Orientalist Ideology, and Heritage Film....Pages 35-49
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
Emerging from Converging Cultures: Circulation, Adaptation, and Value....Pages 53-65
Transmediality and the Politics of Adaptation: Concepts, Forms, and Strategies....Pages 66-81
Bastards and Pirates, Remixes and Multitudes: The Politics of Mash-Up Transgression and the Polyprocesses of Cultural Jazz....Pages 82-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
‘Bergman in Uganda’: Ugandan Veejays, Swedish Pirates, and the Political Value of Live Adaptation....Pages 99-113
Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning and the Politics of Adaptation in African Literature....Pages 114-125
Michael Jackson and Afrofuturism: HIStory’s Adaptation of Past, Present, and Future....Pages 126-140
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
The End of the Hollywood ‘Rip-Off’? Changes in the Bollywood Politics of Copyright....Pages 143-157
Adapting Tasmania: Terrorizing the Past....Pages 158-171
Laibach’s Subversive Adaptations....Pages 172-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Game of Thrones: The Politics of World-Building and the Cultural Logic of Gentrification....Pages 187-200
You Think You Know the Story: Novelty, Repetition, and Lovecraft in Whedon and Goddard’s The Cabin in the Woods ....Pages 201-213
Stop/Watch: Repressing History, Adapting Watchmen ....Pages 214-226
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
Biopolitics of Adaptation....Pages 229-242
‘Restrained Glamour’: Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina, Postfeminism, and Transmedia Biopolitics....Pages 243-255
Back Matter....Pages 257-265