Adaptation Considered as a Collaborative Art: Process and Practice

Author:   Bernadette Cronin ,  Rachel MagShamhráin ,  Nikolai Preuschoff
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
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Pages:   373
Publication Date:   09 May 2020
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Author:   Bernadette Cronin ,  Rachel MagShamhráin ,  Nikolai Preuschoff
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.637kg
ISBN:  

9783030251604


ISBN 10:   3030251608
Pages:   373
Publication Date:   09 May 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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"1. Introduction: Process and Practice.- 2. Collaborating with the Dead, or Adapters as Secret Agents.- 3. 'Playing the Maids': Playing with Adaptive Possibilities - Collaboration and the Actor's Process.- 4. The Not-So-Singular Life of Albert Nobbs.- 5. Adaptation, Devising and Collective Creation: Tracing Histories of Pat McCabe's The Butcher Boy on Stage.- 6. The Alien World of Objects: Stanley Kubrick's The Killing.- 7. Adapting History in the Docupoetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes and Script Poems of Danez Smith and Claudia Rankine.- 8. ""His world had vanished long before he entered it"" Wes Anderson's homage to Stefan Zweig.- 9. Collaborative Art with Political Intent: The 1933 Adaptation of Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter / The Rider on the White Horse (1888).- 10. Adapting Hein's Willenbrock: Andreas Dresen and the legacy of the GDR 'Ensemble' Tradition.- 11. Same Player, Shoot Again: Géla Babluan's 13 (Tzameti), Transnational Auto-Remakes, and Collaboration.- 12. Anselm Kiefer's Signature.- 13. Adaptation as Arguing with the Past: The Case of Sherlock.-  14. The Prestige Noverlisation of the Contemporary TV Series: David Hewson's The Killing.-  15. Things You Can Do to an Author When He's Dead: Literary Prosthetics and the Example of Heinrich von Kleist.- 16. Collaborating with the Dead, Playing the Shakespeare Archive; or How We Can Avoid Being Pushed from Our Stools."

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Bernadette Cronin is an actor and theatre practitioner-researcher who co-founded Gaitkrash Theatre Company in 2007 to make experimental theatre work at the intersection between art forms. She teaches in the Department of Theatre at University College Cork, Ireland and her research focuses mainly on adapting and devising. Rachel MagShamhráin is Lecturer in German Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. Her research looks at appropriation — adoptions, borrowings, thefts, re-purposing and retellings across media, languages and genders — and concentrates on the German author Heinrich von Kleist. Nikolai Jan Preuschoff teaches German at NYU Berlin and Literary Studies at the University of Erfurt. Germany. He is the author of Mit Walter Benjamin: Melancholie, Geschichte und Erzählen bei W.G. Sebald (2016) and is currently working on a postdoctoral project on poetics and modesty.

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