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Author Constandinides, Costas.

Title From film adaptation to post-celluloid adaptation : rethinking the transition of popular narratives and characters across old and new media / Costas Constandinides.

Publication Info. New York : Continuum, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (166 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
Contents Introduction -- Toward the intertextual dialogism approach -- Toward post-celluloid adaptation -- From the prediction of crime to the prevision of screenless media : Spielberg's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's The minority report -- Adapting the literature of the double : manifestations of cinematic forms in Fight club and Enduring love -- Bullet-time, blood spraying time, and the adaptation of the graphic novel -- From shadows to excess : new media Hollywood and the digitizing of gothic monsters in Van Helsing -- Puppet Kong vs. synthetic Kong : Peter Jackson's King Kong as post-celluloid adaptation -- Conclusion.
Summary The main corpus of film adaptation thus far has focused on films based on canonical literature. From Film Adaptation to Post-Celluloid Adaptation takes the next logical step by discussing the emerging modes of film adaptation from older media to new, mainly focusing on the computer-generated reconstructions of popular narratives an d c haracters along with other forms of convergence such as the Internet. While 'New Media' is a broa d c oncept, the book will concentrate on the ways digital technology is being used in the encoding of films and discuss the ways this shift can be debated from a th.
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Subject Film adaptations -- History and criticism.
Film adaptations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Constandinides, Costas. From film adaptation to post-celluloid adaptation. New York : Continuum, 2010 9781441103802 (DLC) 2010006797 (OCoLC)535494818
ISBN 9781441188243 (electronic book)
144118824X (electronic book)
9781441103802
1441103805