Tag: Adaptation

Free Download John Alberti, "Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age "
English | ISBN: 0814344917 | 2018 | 202 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age is an edited volume of eight essays that look at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic adaptation. The movie version of the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, premiered in 2001, in between publication of the fourth and fifth books of this global literary phenomenon. As a result, the production and reception of both novel and movie series became intertwined with one another, creating a fanbase who accessed the series first through the books, first through the movies, and in various other combinations. John Alberti and P. Andrew Miller have gathered scholars to explore and examine the cultural, political, aesthetic, and pedagogical dimensions of this pop culture phenomenon and how it has changed the reception of both the films and books.

Free Download The comic book film adaptation : exploring modern Hollywood’s leading genre By Burke, Liam P
2015 | 372 Pages | ISBN: 1628462035 | EPUB | 16 MB
In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed into Hollywood’s leading genre. From superheroes to Spartan warriors, The Comic Book Film Adaptation offers the first dedicated study to examine how comic books moved from the fringes of popular culture to the center of mainstream film production.Through in-depth analysis, industry interviews, and audience research, this book charts the cause-and-effect of this influential trend. It considers the cultural traumas, business demands, and digital possibilities that Hollywood faced at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The industry managed to meet these challenges by exploiting comics and their existing audiences. However, studios were caught off-guard when these comic book fans, empowered by digital media, began to influence the success of these adaptations. Nonetheless, filmmakers soon developed strategies to take advantage of this intense fanbase, while codifying the trend into a more lucrative genre, the comic book movie, which appealed to an even wider audience. Central to this vibrant trend is a comic aesthetic in which filmmakers utilize digital filmmaking technologies to engage with the language and conventions of comics like never before.The Comic Book Film Adaptation explores this unique moment in which cinema is stimulated, challenged, and enriched by the once-dismissed medium of comics.

Free Download William K Smith, Thomas C. Vogelmann, Christa Critchley, "Photosynthetic Adaptation: Chloroplast to Landscape (Ecological Studies, 178)"
English | 2004 | pages: 316 | ISBN: 1441919651, 0387220798 | PDF | 4,9 mb
The impacts of global change depend upon the capacity of plants for light and CO2 capture. This book thoroughly studies photosynthetic mechanisms at each structural level, from the cellular to leaves, crown, and canopy. The authors question whether photosynthetic adaptations take place primarily at the metabolic and biochemical level or through changes in structure and form, or both. In the interest of genetic engineering and agricultural applications, the relative importance of genes controlling both metabolic and light reactions as well as the structure, arrangement and orientation of photosynthesis are analyzed.

Free Download Betty Kaklamanidou, "New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation "
English | ISBN: 0814346243 | 2020 | 304 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
In New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation, editor Betty Kaklamanidou defiantly claims that "all films are adaptations." The wide-ranging chapters included in this book highlight the growing and evolving relevance of the field of adaptation studies and its many branding subfields. Armed with a wealth of methodologies, theoretical concepts, and sophisticated paradigms of case-studies analyses of the past, these scholars expand the field to new and exciting realms.

Free Download Gastón Gutiérrez Gamboa, "Latin American Viticulture Adaptation to Climate Change: Perspectives and Challenges of Viticulture Facing up Global War"
English | ISBN: 303151324X | 2024 | 250 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Latin American viticulture faces a wide range of difficulties that include social, political, economic, and productive aspects. Soil diversity, together with the climates in which the viticulture activity takes place, favours the production of grapes, juices, raisins, musts, wines, and distillates with unique and distinctive characters for the world. In addition, the great genetic diversity that covers autochthonous and minor grapevine varieties, including unknown genotypes, opens a wide range of research opportunities for the adaptation of the viticulture to the negative effects of global warming, favouring sustainability and social equity.

Free Download Rob Roggema, "Adaptation to Climate Change: A Spatial Challenge"
English | 2009 | pages: 375 | ISBN: 1402093586, 9401777160 | PDF | 23,6 mb
As it becomes clear that climate change is not easily within the boundaries of the 1990’s, society needs to be prepared and needs to anticipate future changes due to the uncertain changes in climate. So far, extensive research has been carried out on several issues including the coastal defence or shifting ecozones. However, the role spatial design and planning can play in adapting to climate change has not yet been focused on.

Free Download Bernadette Cronin, Rachel MagShamhráin, Nikolai Preuschoff, "Adaptation Considered as a Collaborative Art: Process and Practice"
English | 2020 | pages: 373 | ISBN: 3030251632, 3030251608 | PDF | 5,8 mb
This book examines the processes of adaptation across a number of intriguing case studies and media. Turning its attention from the ‘what’ to the ‘how’ of adaptation, it serves to re-situate the discourse of adaptation studies, moving away from the hypotheses that used to haunt it, such as fidelity, to questions of how texts, authors and other creative practitioners (always understood as a plurality) engage in dialogue with one another across cultures, media, languages, genders and time itself. With fifteen chapters across fields including fine art and theory, drama and theatre, and television, this interdisciplinary volume considers adaptation across the creative and performance arts, with a single focus on the collaborative.

Free Download Anna Piliska, "Lolita between Adaptation and Interpretation: From Nabokov’s Novel and Screenplay to Kubrick’s Film"
English | ISBN: 1443880493 | 2015 | 155 pages | PDF | 573 KB
This book offers a comparative analysis of three versions of Vladimir Nabokovs Lolita: namely, the original novel (1955), the script written by the novelist himself and published as Lolita: A Screenplay (1974), and Stanley Kubricks film based on Lolitas storyline (1962). Kubricks final product oscillates between adaptation and interpretation, as it draws from both Nabokovs novel and script, but also uses the improvisational talents of the cast, eventually rendering the directors firm auteurial hand clearly visible throughout the film. The book analyses how various additions and subtractions made first by Nabokov as a scriptwriter, and later by Kubrick as a movie director, influence the reception of the four main characters: Lolita, Humbert Humbert, Charlotte Haze, and Clare Quilty. The original novels multilayered web of intertextual references among them the works of Edgar Allan Poe and the typically Nabokovian critique of Freudian theories becomes significantly reduced in the script and the film, with Kubrick additionally enriching the film version of the story with cinematic references. While Lolita the novel has been extensively researched and commented upon, and some criticism on the two film versions (Kubricks 1962 production, and Lynes 1997 film) is also available, the scope of Lolita: Between Adaptation and Interpretation includes in its analysis the text of Nabokovs original screenplay, which although ultimately not used by Kubrick provides fascinating insights into how the writer himself envisioned his own creation rendered in a movie adaptation. Kubricks work departs significantly from the contents of both the novel and the screenplay, being closer to an auteurs interpretation of the original piece than its adaptation.

Free Download Adaptation and Illustration: New Cartographies
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031321332 | 394 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 62 MB
This collection examines the relationship between illustration and adaptation from an intermedial and transcultural perspective. It aims to foster a dialogue between two fields that co-exist without necessarily acknowledging advances in each other’s domains, providing an argument for defining illustration as a form of adaptation, as well as an intermedial practice that redefines what we mean by adaptation. The volume embraces both a specific and an extended definition of illustration that accounts for its inclusion among the web of adaptive practices that developed with the rise of new media and intermediality. The contributors explore how crossovers may contribute to reappraise their objects, and rely on a transmedial and interdisciplinary corpus exploring the boundaries between illustration and other media such as texts, graphic novels, comics, theatre, film and mobile applications. Arguably adaptation, like intermediality, is an umbrella term that covers a variety of practices and products, and both of them have been shaped by intense debates over their boundaries and internal definitions. Illustration belongs to each of these areas, and this volume proposes insight into how illustration not only relates to adaptation and intermediality but how each field is redefined, enriched and also challenged by such interactions.

Free Download The Artillery at Anzac: Adaptation, Innovation and Education
by Chris Roberts and Paul Stevens
English | 2021 | ASIN: B08TX6DZSQ | 549 Pages | True ePUB | 12 MB