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From Film Adaptation to Post-Celluloid Adaptation PhD Costas Constandinides (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)

From Film Adaptation to Post-Celluloid Adaptation By PhD Costas Constandinides (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)

From Film Adaptation to Post-Celluloid Adaptation by PhD Costas Constandinides (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)


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Discusses emerging modes of film adaptation, focusing on the computer-generated reconstructions of popular narratives and characters with other forms of convergence such as the Internet.

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From Film Adaptation to Post-Celluloid Adaptation: Rethinking the Transition of Popular Narratives and Characters across Old and New Media by PhD Costas Constandinides (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)

The main corpus of film adaptation thus far has focused on films based on canonical literature. From Film Adaptation to Post-Celluloid Adaptation takes the next logical step by discussing the emerging modes of film adaptation from older media to new, mainly focusing on the computer-generated reconstructions of popular narratives and characters along with other forms of convergence such as the Internet. While 'New Media' is a broad concept, the book will concentrate on the ways digital technology is being used in the encoding of films and discuss the ways this shift can be debated from a theoretical perspective. Though the discussion is framed through the 'new media' lens, the work will not exclude a broader understanding of New Media which refers to video games, official websites and interactivity so as to examine how the visual style of contemporary films is dispersed across, and influenced by, other media. Discussing films like Minority Report, King Kong, 300 and Wanted in relation to Film Adaptation theory, the work aims to challenge and rework the definition of adaptation.

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This challenging and energetic book places adaptation studies in a new media context and in the process offers us a model for interrogating the post-celluloid adaptation. This book revisits the thorny question of the limits of adaptation with subtlety and sophistication and offers compelling readings of some of the most commercially successful and popular film adaptations of recent times, strengthened by a firm grasp of contemporary industry processes and an intelligent investigation of new media paradigms. It will be a significant contribution to the field. --Imelda Whelehan, Director, Centre for Adaptations, De Montfort University
A welcome addition to the increasingly diverse field of adaptation studies, From Film Adaptation to Post-Celluloid Adaptation proposes a vigorous and fascinating study of textual transform as mediated through advancing digital technologies. In this highly reflective book, Costas Constandinides attempts to create a new paradigm to help shed clarity on the increasing remediation of traditional forms into digital and computer-generated mediums, using a variety of modern, popular films. -Jamie Sherry, Bangor University, UK in Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, Vol 4, issue 2
A welcome addition to the increasingly diverse field of adaptation studies, From Film Adaptation to Post-Celluloid Adaptation proposes a vigorous and fascinating study of textual transform as mediated through advancing digital technologies. In this highly reflective book, Costas Constandinides attempts to create a new paradigm to help shed clarity on the increasing remediation of traditional forms into digital and computer-generated mediums, using a variety of modern, popular films. -- The Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, Vol 4, Issue 2

About PhD Costas Constandinides (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)

Dr. Costas Constandinides is Assistant Professor in the Communications Department at The University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He teaches Film studies and Television Studies. Undergraduate studies at the University of Cyprus (B.A in English Studies, 2002); Graduate studies at the University of Reading, UK (MA Film and Theatre, 2003, Ph.D in Film/TV Adaptation, 2007), where he taught Film and Television courses in the Department of Film, Theatre and Television.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Towards the Intertextual Dialogism Approach 2. Towards Post-celluloid Adaptation 3. From the Pre-diction of Crime to the Pre-vision of Screenless Media: Spielberg's Adaptation of Philip K. Dick's The Minority Report 4. Adapting the Literature of the Double: Manifestations of Cinematic Forms in Fight Club and Enduring Love 5. Bullet-time, Blood Spraying Time, and the Adaptation of the Graphic Novel 6. From Shadows to Excess: New Media Hollywood and the Digitizing of Gothic Monsters in Van Helsing 7. Puppet Kong vs. Synthetic Kong: Peter Jackson's King Kong as Post-celluloid Adaptation Conclusion Bibliography Index

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NLS9781441106087
9781441106087
1441106081
From Film Adaptation to Post-Celluloid Adaptation: Rethinking the Transition of Popular Narratives and Characters across Old and New Media by PhD Costas Constandinides (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2012-09-03
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