The Politics of Adaptation, 2015 Media Convergence and Ideology

In the age of globalization, digitization, and media convergence, traditional hierarchies between media are breaking down. This book offers new approaches to understanding the politics and their underlying ideologies that are reshaping our global media landscape, including questions of audience participation and transmedia storytelling.

List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on the Contributors Introduction; Dan Hassler-Forest and Pascal Nicklas PART I: ADAPTING THE PAST: POLITICS AND HISTORY 1. History as Adaptation; Thomas Leitch 2. Voyeuristic Revisionism?: (Re-)Viewing the Politics of Neo-Victorian Adaptations; Caterina Grasl 3. Cultural Nostalgia, Orientalist Ideology, and Heritage Film; Antonija Primorac PART II: ADAPTING AUTHORSHIP: POLITICS AND CONVERGENCE 4. Emerging from Converging Cultures: Circulation, Adaptation, and Value; Timothy Corrigan 5. Transmediality and the Politics of Adaptation: Concepts, Forms, and Strategies; Jens Eder 6. Bastards and Pirates, Remixes and Multitudes: The Politics of Mash-Up Transgression and the Polyprocesses of Cultural Jazz; Eckart Voigts PART III: ADAPTING POSTCOLONIALISM: POLITICS AND RACE 7. 'Bergman in Uganda': Ugandan Veejays, Swedish Pirates, and the Political Value of Live Adaptation; Lindiwe Dovey 8. Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning and the Politics of Adaptation in African Literature; Aaron Bady 9. Michael Jackson and Afrofuturism: HIStory's Adaptation of Past, Present and Future; Erik Steinskog PART IV: ADAPTING NATIONALITY: POLITICS AND GLOBALIZATION 10. The End of the Hollywood 'Rip-Off'? Changes in the Bollywood Politics of Copyright; Lucia Krämer 11. Adapting Tasmania: Terrorizing the Past; Imelda Whelehan 12. Laibach's Subversive Adaptations; Darko Štrajn PART V: ADAPTING GENRE: POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE 13. Game of Thrones: The Politics of World-building and the Cultural Logic of Gentrification; Dan Hassler-Forest 14. You Think You Know the Story: Novelty, Repetition, and Lovecraft in Whedon and Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods; Gerry Canavan 15. Stop/Watch: Repressing History, Adapting ; Jacob Brogan PART VI: ADAPTING THE BODY: POLITICS AND GENDER 16. Biopolitics of Adaptation; Pascal Nicklas 17. 'Restrained Glamor': Joe Wright's Anna Karenina, Postfeminism, and Transmedia Biopolitics; Monika Pietrzak-Franger Index

Aaron Bady, University of Texas, USA Jacob Brogan, Georgetown University, USA Gerry Canavan, Marquette University, USA Timothy Corrigan, University of Pennsylvania, USA Lindiwe Dovey, SOAS, University of London, UK Jens Eder, University of Mannheim, Germany Caterina Grasl, University of Vienna, Austria Dan Hassler-Forest, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Lucia Krämer, Leibniz University Hanover, Germany Thomas Leitch, University of Delaware, USA Pascal Nicklas, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Hamburg University, Germany Antonija Primorac, University of Split, Croatia Erik Steinskog, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Darko trajn, Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Eckart Voigts, TU Braunschweig, Germany Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, Australia