Book Review: the adaptation industry: the cultural economy of contemporary literary adaptation

Brienza, Casey (2012) Book Review: the adaptation industry: the cultural economy of contemporary literary adaptation. LSE Review of Books (06 Oct 2012). Website.

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Adaptation constitutes the driving force of contemporary culture, with stories adapted across an array of media formats. Until now, adaptation studies has been concerned almost exclusively with textual analysis, in particular with compare-and-contrast studies of individual novel and film pairings. The Adaptation Industry re-imagines adaptation not as an abstract process, but as a material industry. It presents the adaptation industry as a cultural economy of interlocking institutions, stakeholders and decision-makers all engaged in the actual business of adapting texts. Casey Brienza finds that the book is a fantastic contribution to the social scientific literature on cultural production and highly recommends it to all scholars in that field

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2012 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Date Deposited:	06 Jun 2013 11:59
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 18:39
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/50635

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