Adaptation and American Studies

Perspectives on Research and Teaching. Edited by Nassim Winnie Balestrini. With an Afterword by Linda Hutcheon.

As Linda Hutcheon writes in her afterword, this volume featuring contributions from scholars, teachers, and artists working in Canada, the United States, and Germany demonstrates »the manifest popularity« and »the 'ubiquity' of adaptation as a contemporary cultural phenomenon - albeit one with roots going deep into the past«. The opening theoretical essay shows how the interdisciplinary and global field of adaptation studies intersects with the transnational cultural studies trajectory within American studies. The nine contributions to this volume probe the depths of narratives that have shuttled between multiple genres, cultures, languages, and eras, and highlights concerns shared by research and teaching. It includes and, in several instances, combines the perspectives of artists who practice adaptation, of researchers who analyze and contextualize adaptation, and of instructors who teach adaptation processes or use adaptation as a didactic tool. - Contents: Jonathan Elkus/Nassim W. Balestrini: Adaptation and the American Band Tradition. A Conversation with Jonathan Elkus. - David Starkey: Adapting the Unreal. Composing an Alternate History for Emily Dickinson. - Siobhan O'Flynn: Designing for the Interactant. How Interactivity Impacts on Adaptation. - Leslie C. Dunn: »Many Kinds of Music«. Adapting Shakespeare's Song/Play. - Kathryn S. Koo: Returning to the Source. Captain John Smith's "The Generall Historie" and the Making of Terrence Malick's "The New World". - Ute Ritzenhofen: The English Patients. Teaching the Novel, the Screenplay, and the Movie. - Mark Cantrell: Dark Soundings. Teaching Heavy Metal Adaptations of "Moby-Dick". - Daniel Stein: Teaching Poetry through Song Adaptation. Abel Meeropol's and Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit". - Jill L. Levenson: The Adaptations of Juliet and Her Romeo. - Linda Hutcheon: Moving Forward. The Next Stage in Adaptation Studies. IX,245 Seiten mit 10 Abb., gebunden (American Studies - A Monograph Series; Vol. 216/Universitätsverlag Winter 2011)