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The study ventures into a topic that has been so far largely neglected in film studies: the 'gypsy' phantasm on the big screen. It reconstructs the history of 'gypsy' representations in film since the birth of the medium providing a systematic film-theoretical analysis of their aesthetic and social functions. Based on a corpus of over 150 works from European and US cinema, it is shown that 'gypsy'-themed feature films share the pattern of an 'ethno-racial' masquerade, irrespective of the place and time of their origin. The author thus expands the research, concentrated until now in the field of literature, with another art form, film, opening up new dimensions of (popular) cultural antigypsyism.

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The study ventures into a topic that has been so far largely neglected in film studies: the 'gypsy' phantasm on the big screen. It reconstructs the history of 'gypsy' representations in film since the birth of the medium providing a systematic film-theoretical analysis of their aesthetic and social functions. Based on a corpus of over 150 works from European and US cinema, it is shown that 'gypsy'-themed feature films share the pattern of an 'ethno-racial' masquerade, irrespective of the place and time of their origin. The author thus expands the research, concentrated until now in the field of literature, with another art form, film, opening up new dimensions of (popular) cultural antigypsyism.

Film adaptations. --- Adaptations, Film --- Books, Filmed --- Filmed books --- Films from books --- Literature --- Motion picture adaptations --- Motion pictures --- Film adaptations --- Adaptations

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Si Shakespeare continue d'exister pour la majorité du public, c'est surtout de manière fragmentée ou quasi spectrale dans les films, les jeux vidéo, les dessins animés, les séries télévisées et les créations des fans sur Internet. Cet ouvrage n'entend pas seulement étudier les adaptations cinématographiques classiques, mais partir aussi de fictions audiovisuelles a priori non shakespeariennes et analyser ce que les motifs shakespeariens font aux productions filmiques. Shakespeare n'est plus seulement adapté à l'écran, il s'immisce dans un nombre considérable de productions, là où on ne l'attend pas ou plus. Au-delà de "Shakespeare à l'écran" , émerge la notion d'écran shakespearien. Grâce aux films, aux séries et aux vidéos sur YouTube, l'auteur d'Hamlet reste pertinent sur le plan culturel et touche de nouveaux publics, que ce soit à travers des adaptations, des citations ou bien des reprises plus ou moins diffuses du modèle narratif et réflexif du dramaturge. En retour, les productions audiovisuelles ont convoqué les mots et intrigues du dramaturge pour bénéficier de son aura et de son prestige, transformant sans cesse ce que l'on entend par "Shakespeare" . Il s'agira ainsi de cheminer dans le "devenir-audiovisuel" des pièces, ainsi que dans le "devenir-shakespearien" des écrans.

Shakespeare, William --- Adaptations cinématographiques --- Adaptations télévisées --- Cinéma --- Cinéma et théâtre. --- Théâtre (genre littéraire) --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Adaptations cinématographiques. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Au cinéma. --- Adaptations --- History and criticism. --- Film adaptations. --- Television adaptations.

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Epic Ambitions in Modern Times seeks neither to be a comprehensive history of the modern epic nor to construct a theoretical framework for understanding how epics work. Its twelve chapters range from a consideration of the final books of Paradise Lost to an assessment of a quartet of twenty-first-century women writers who have retold the ancient epics in the form of novels voiced by marginal characters in the original poems. Between those goalposts the book takes up epic in the forms of an epistolary novel, a work of history, a poetic autobiography, an opera, a silent film, a series of paintings, two literary fantasies, three long poems set in science-fictional futures, and a play.

The book explores how artists in the past three centuries, working in varied forms and media, have aimed for, in Milton's phrase, 'things unattempted yet' in epic creation. The ambition of artists to produce epic and the persistent desire of audiences for epic experience constitute the alternating current that stimulates the analysis of the representative selection of modern epics.

Epic literature --- History and criticism. --- Adaptations

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The focus on twenty-first-century adaptations—many of them little known—of nineteenth-century Spanish novels produces a highly original study, particularly since the adaptations are discussed on their own merits as creative responses to contemporary concerns such as disability, indebtedness, and domestic violence. The stress on free adaptations—in cinema, television, theatre, opera, and graphic narrative—is refreshing. Particularly welcome is the attention not just to the visual reimagining of literary sources but also to the use of musical effects. Readers will take away from this book an appreciation of the inventiveness of contemporary Spanish cultural production. —Jo Labanyi, New York University (USA) Those who are suspicious of non-traditional adaptations of classic literary works will change their minds after reading Linda Willem’s studies of re-mediated versions of nineteenth-century Spanish novels. The adaptations vividly illustrate each work’s relevance to contemporary concerns, and Willem’s analyses bring fresh understanding both to the original works and to the creative re-envisionings of them. Each chapter allows nonspecialists to discover the richness of works by Alas, Galdós, Pardo Bazán, Valera, and Blasco Ibáñez, while making specialists eager to re-read the original works and to teach them with their adaptations. Everyone who is interested in adaptation will enjoy this volume. —Joyce Tolliver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) The twenty-first-century's turn away from fidelity-based adaptations toward more innovative approaches has allowed adapters from Spain, Argentina, and the United States to draw upon Spain's rich body of nineteenth-century classics to address contemporary concerns about gender, sexuality, race, class, disability, celebrity, immigration, identity, social justice, and domestic violence. This book provides a snapshot of visual adaptations in the first two decades of the new millennium, examining how novelistic material from the past has been remediated for today's viewers through film, television, theater, opera, and the graphic novel. Its theoretical approach refines the binary view of adapters as either honoring or opposing their source texts by positing three types of adaptation strategies: salvaging (which preserves old stories by giving them renewed life for modern audiences), utilizing (which draws upon a pre-existing text for an alternative purpose, building upon the story and creating a shift in emphasis without devaluing the source material), and appropriation (which involves a critique of the source text, often with an attempt to dismantle its authority). Special attention is given to how adapters address audiences that are familiar with the source novels, and those that are not. This examination of the vibrant afterlife of classic literature will be of interest to scholars and educators in the fields of adaptation, media, Spanish literature, cultural studies, performance, and the graphic arts.

Literature --- literatuur --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Film adaptations. --- Mass media and literature. --- Spanish literature --- Adaptations --- History and criticism. --- Film adaptations