A Theory of Adaptation (Paperback, 2 ed)

Preface to the 1^st Edition  Preface to the Revised Edition  Chapter 1 Beginning to Theorize Adaptation What? Who? Why? How? Where? When?  Familiarity and Contempt  Treating Adaptations as Adaptations  Exactly What Gets Adapted? How?  Double Vision: Defining  Adaptation Adaptation as Product: Announced, Extensive,  Specific Transcoding  Adaptation as Process  Modes of Engagement  Framing Adaptation  Chapter 2 What? (Forms)  Medium Specificity Revisited  Telling ? Showing  Showing ? Showing  Interacting - -Telling or Showing  Cliche #1  Cliche #2  Cliche #3  Cliche #4  Learning from Practice  Chapter 3 Who? Why? (Adapters)  Who Is the Adapter?  Why Adapt?  The Economic Lures  The Legal Constraints  Cultural Capital  Personal and Political Motives  Learning from Practice  Intentionality in Adaptations  Chapter 4 How? (Audiences)  The Pleasures of Adaptation  Knowing and Unknowing Audiences  Modes of Engagement Revisited  Kinds and Degrees of Immersion  Chapter 5 Where? When? (Contexts)  The Vastness of Context  Transcultural Adaptation  Indigenization  Learning from Practice  Why Carmen?  The Carmen Story?and Stereotype  Indigenizing Carmen  Chapter 6 Final Questions  What Is Not an Adaptation?  What Is the Appeal of Adaptations?  Epilogue by Siobhan O’Flynn