Redefining Adaptation Studies

Cutchins (English, Brigham Young University) gathers academics in theater studies, media studies, and English to demonstrate benefits and new approaches to teaching literature adaptation, in this resource for teachers of high school and university courses. The essays focus on what the idea of adaptation means in different sociopolitical contexts. Of special interest is a chapter on a group writing project adapting Brokeback Mountain using e-mail and mobile phone text message exchanges between the characters, contributed anonymously by students in the class. Some other ideas explored include teaching English texts to students from another culture, teaching radio drama adaptations, stage-to film adaptation, adapting Wilde for the performance classroom, e-adapting Blake in the classroom. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dennis Cutchins is associate professor of English at Brigham Young University, where he teaches adaptation studies, as well as American and western literature.

Laurence Raw teaches at Baskent University. He is the author of Adapting Henry James to the Screen (2006), Adapting Nathaniel Hawthorne to the Screen (2008), and The Ridley Scott Encyclopedia (2009), all published by Scarecrow Press.

James M. Welsh is professor emeritus of English at Salisbury University. He is the coeditor of The Literature/Film Reader (2007) and No Country for Old Men: From Novel to Film (2009), both published by Scarecrow Press.