Most books on film adaptation—the relation between films and their literary sources—focus on a series of close one-to-one comparisons between specific films

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This collection of forty new essays, written by the leading scholars in adaptation studies and distinguished contributors from outside the field, is the most co

"Guerric DeBona's new book that makes a powerful case that film adaptiations are shaped as much by contextual forces as by their literary forbears. Once it is a

Adaptation constitutes the driving force of contemporary culture, with stories adapted across an array of media formats. However, adaptation studies has been co