The Scandal of Adaptation

The essays in this volume explore the scandals of adaptation, focusing on specific adaptations that portray characters acting in scandalous ways, betraying values, challenging audiences, and confronting questions about bowdlerizing, ethics, censorship, contagion, screenwriting, and history. It challenges the marginalization of adaptations and invites readers to embrace their ability to scandalize institutions.

Format: Hardback
Length: 286 pages
Publication date: 22 April 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

The essays in this volume delve into the exploration of adaptation scandals. Some of these essays specifically focus on adaptations that have been deemed scandalous due to their portrayal of characters engaging in actions that evoke scandal, as they are perceived to undermine the values inherent in the source texts they adapt, as their composition or reception opens up scandalous possibilities that the original texts had repressed, or as they challenge their audiences in ways that the original texts had never contemplated. Meanwhile, others engage in broader inquiries stemming from the assertion that all adaptation is inherently scandalous, as it poses provocative questions regarding bowdlerization, ethics, censorship, contagion, screenwriting, and history. This collection serves as a challenge to the ongoing marginalization of adaptations and adaptation studies, urging a shift in perspective by embracing rather than downplaying their capacity to scandalize the institutions they confront.

The essays in this volume seek to expose the scandals of adaptation.

Some of them focus on specific adaptations that have been considered scandalous because they portray characters acting in ways that give scandal, because they are thought to betray the values enshrined in the texts they adapt, because their composition or reception raises scandalous possibilities those adapted texts had repressed, or because they challenge their audiences in ways those texts had never thought to do.

Others consider more general questions arising from the proposition that all adaptation is a scandalous practice that confronts audiences with provocative questions about bowdlerizing, ethics, censorship, contagion, screenwriting, and history.

The collection offers a challenge to the continued marginalization of adaptations and adaptation studies and an invitation to change their position by embracing rather than downplaying their ability to scandalize the institutions they affront.

Weight: 524g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031141522
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023