Adaptation, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 19198776
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1057/9781137315878
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 978-0-230-28384-8
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This 167pp. monograph shows sustained research effort, over seven-years, through an original in-depth study of how contemporary women film directors and writers negotiate their agency and authority in the act of adapting novels for the screen. This long-form output of five extended chapters (each of c.15000 words) was dependent on an extended period of research into the production and reception of 11 film adaptations, as well as an lengthy period of close textual analysis of both film adaptations and their respective literary sources. The process also involved detailed analysis of the gender politics of the film industry and contextualising the adaptations in relation to both literary and film theories of authorship in order to emphasise the collaborative nature of adaptation through a feminist approach. Moreover, the chapters also situate the adaptations and the women filmmakers in the developing cultural politics of what has become known as the postfeminist era of the turn of the millennium that is most acutely played out in women-oriented media. Sections of chapter 4 (pp. 117-129) that focus on the television show ‘Lost in Austen’ (ITV 2008) were previously published in ‘What Would Jane Do?: Postfeminist Media Uses of Austen and the Austen Reader’, in Uses of Austen: Jane’s Afterlives, Clare Hanson and Gillian Dow, (eds.) (Palgrave Macmillan, August 2012).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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