The Politics of Adaptation

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 Kramer 11. Adapting Tasmania: Terrorizing the Past; Imelda Whelehan 12. Laibach's Subversive Adaptations; Darko Strajn 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