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Adaptations : from text to screen, screen to text / edited by Deborah Cartmell and Imelda Whelehan London New York: Routledge, 1999.
Call No: 753 ADAAuthor: Cartmell, Deborah ; Whelehan, Imelda Source: US/UKPlace: London New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1999PhysDes: xvii, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: ADAPTATIONS ; ADAPTATIONS. AUSTEN, JANE ; ADAPTATIONS. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM ; ANIMATION ; BATMAN IN FILMS ; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA ; TELEVISION IN FILMS ; CAMPION, JANE ; BATMAN [TV] (US, 1965-67) ; SCARLET LETTER, THE (US, Roland Joffe, 1995) ; SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (US, Ang Lee, 1995) ; EMMA (UK, Douglas McGrath, 1996) ; CLUELESS (US, Amy Heckerling, 1995) ; LITTLE WOMEN (US, George Cukor, 1933) ; LITTLE WOMEN (US, Gillian Armstrong, 1994) ; LITTLE WOMEN (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1948) ; NAKED LUNCH (CN/UK, David Cronenberg, 1991) ; SCHINDLER'S LIST (US, Steven Spielberg, 1993) ; TRAINSPOTTING (UK, Danny Boyle, 1996) ; ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992) ; PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993) ; PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THE (UK/US, Jane Campion, 1996) ; BATMAN (US, Tim Burton, 1989) ; [ONE HUNDRED AND ONE] 101 DALMATIANS (US, Stephen Herek, 1996) Summary: "Adaptations surveys the key approaches and debates surrounding adaptation, and explores why adaptations of both 'high' and 'low' cultural texts have become increasingly popular. Beginning with the history of Shakespeare on film, from Olivier's and Branagh's Hamlet, contributors examine screen versions of literary classics, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women to Thomas Keneally's Schindler's Ark and Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting. Adaptations goes on to consider adaptation in reverse: How writers like Virginia Woolf incorporated cinematic elements into their work, and explains why there had to be a novel of Jane Campion's The Piano. Contributors examine adaptations from comics to film, such as the Batman movies, Star Trek's incarnations as a long-running tv series, and then as a sequence of movies, and 101 Dalmations' [sic] move from children's novel to cartoon to live-action film." - BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-238) and indexISBN: 041516737X (hbk); 0415167388 (pbk); 041516737X (hardcover : alk. paper); 0415167388 (pbk : alk. paper)LON: 14255526Contents: Part 1: an overview -- Adaptations: the contemporary dilemmas / Imelda Whelehan; Part 2: from text to screen -- Introduction / Deborah Cartmell -- The Shakespeare on screen industry / Deborah Cartmell -- Conservative Austen, radical Austen: Sense and Sensibility from text to screen / Julian North -- From Emma to Clueless: taste, pleasure and the scene of history / Esther Sonnet -- Imagining the puritan body: the 1995 cinematic version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter / Roger Bromley -- Four Little Women: three films and a novel / Pat Kirkham and Sarah Warren -- Will Hollywood never learn? David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch / Nicholas Zurbrugg -- Adapting the Holocaust: Schindler's List, intellectuals and public knowledge / Mark Rawlinson -- Speaking out: the transformations of trainspotting / Derek Paget; Part 3: from screen to text and multiple adaptations -- Introduction / Deborah Cartmell -- Orlando: coming across the divide / Sharon Ouditt -- Jane Campion and the limits of literary cinema / Ken Gelder -- The wrath of the original cast: translating embodied television character to other media / Ina Rae Hark -- Batman: one life, many faces / Will Brooker -- 'Thou art translated': analysing animated adaptation / Paul Wells -- 'A doggy fairy tale': the film metamorphoses of The Hundred and One Dalmatians / Imelda Whelehan
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Batman : the official book of the movie / John Marriott London: Hamlyn, 1989.
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Batman / By Matt Yockey Detroit, Mich: Wayne State University Press, March 2014.
Call No: 79 BAT YOCAuthor: Yockey, Matt Place: Detroit, MichPublisher: Wayne State University PressPubDate: March 2014PhysDes: 160 p. : ill. ; 18 cmSeries: TV MilestonesSubject: BATMAN [TV] (US, 1965-67) ; BATMAN IN FILMS Summary: ABC’s action-comedy series Batman (1966–68) famously offered a dual address in its wildly popular portayal of a comic book hero in a live action format. Children uncritically accepted the show’s plots and characters, who were guided by lofty ideals and social values, while adults reacted to the clear parody of the values on display. In Batman, author Matt Yockey argues that the series served as a safe space for viewers to engage with changing attitudes about consumerism, politics, the Vietnam war, celebrity, race, and gender during a period when social meaning was increasingly contested in America.
Yockey examines Batman’s boundary pushing in four chapters. In "Bat-Civics," he analyzes the superhero as a conflicted symbol of American identity and considers the ways in which the Batman character parodied that status. Yockey then looks at the show’s experimentation with the superhero genre’s conservative gender and racial politics in "Bat-Difference" and investigates the significance of the show’s choices of stars and guest stars in "Bat-Casting." Finally, he considers how the series’ dual identity as straightforward crime serial and subversive mass culture text set it up for extratextual production in "Bat-Being."
The superhero is a conflicted symbol of American identity—representing both excessive individualism and the status quo—making it an especially useful figure for the kind of cultural work that Batman undertook. Batman fans, from popular culture enthusiasts to television history scholars, will enjoy this volume. -- publisher's blurbISBN: 9780814338186Language: EnglishDonation: Senses of Cinema
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Batman: The Animated Series / Joe Sutcliffe Sanders Detroit, Mich: Wayne State University Press, 2021.
Call No: 79 BAT SANAuthor: Sanders, Joe Sutcliffe Place: Detroit, MichPublisher: Wayne State University PressPubDate: 2021PhysDes: 128 p. : ill. ; 18 cmSeries: TV MilestonesSubject: BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES [ADVENTURES OF BATMAN AND ROBIN, THE] [TV] (US, 1992-1995) ; BATMAN IN FILMS Summary: It’s possible that no other version of Batman has been more influential than the one that debuted as a children’s cartoon in 1992. For millions of fans around the world, the voices of Batman and the Joker introduced in Batman: The Animated Series (BTAS) remain the default. The characters, designs, and major themes of the show went on to shape other cartoons, films, and bestselling video games. In this study, Joe Sutliff Sanders argues that BTAS is not only a milestone of television but a milestone in the public persona of one of the most recognizable characters in the world.
The series introduced a new generation to Batman and provided the foundation for a family of cartoons that expanded the superhero universe. It introduced or reinvented major characters including Mr. Freeze, Robin, the Joker, and Harley Quinn. In three chapters, Sanders pursues the intricate arguments that still energize BTAS. Chapter 1 explores the visuals of the show, the artistic histories and tensions that inform its revolutionary style, and what ideas—intentional and otherwise—its aesthetic implies. Chapter 2 turns to the task of defining a "good" wealthy person against a backdrop of "bad," getting to the heart of one of Batman’s most problematic characteristics. Lastly, chapter 3 considers Harley Quinn, a character who emblemizes much of what made BTAS successful. From her first appearance, Harley has been both sexy and witty, victor and victim, and this chapter explains the duality that defines her.
Since its debut in 1992, BTAS has garnered multiple awards, launched or developed the careers of countless important artists, and created aesthetic styles—in terms of both visuals and voice acting—that continue to resonate. Sanders’s book follows an informative and exciting path through the material and is designed to be accessible to aficionados as well as relative newcomers. Batman fans, popular culture enthusiasts, and media studies scholars will find within these pages insights and ironies to provoke endless conversations.-- publisher's blurbISBN: 9780814345405Language: EnglishDonation: Senses of Cinema
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Film reboots / edited by Daniel Herbert and Constantine Verevis Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
Call No: 753.81 FILAuthor: Herbert, Daniel ; Verevis, Constantine Edition: 2020Place: EdinburghPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPubDate: 2020PhysDes: 244 pages : illustrated ; 25 cmSeries: Screen SerialitiesSubject: REMAKES ; FRANCHISES ; BATMAN IN FILMS ; GHOSTBUSTERS (US, Ivan Reitman, 1984) ; GHOSTBUSTERS (US, Paul Feig, 2016) ; STAR TREK ; STAR WARS [...] (US, 1977-2015) Notes: Bringing together the latest developments in the study of serial formatting practices – remakes, sequels, series – Film Reboots is the first edited collection to specifically focus on the new millennial phenomenon of rebooting. Through a set of vibrant case studies, this collection investigates rebooting as a practice that seeks to remake an entire film series or franchise, with ambitions that are at once respectful and revisionary. Examining such notable examples as Batman, Ghostbusters, and Star Trek, among others, this collection contends with some of the most important features of contemporary film and media culture today. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781474451369Contents: Introduction: Film Reboots / Daniel Herbert and Constantine Verevis.
PART I: INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE -- 1. Rethinking the ‘Supersystem’: Film Reboots and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / Daniel Herbert -- 2. Live Long and Prosper: Rebooting Star Trek and Reimagining Fandom / Erin Hanna -- 3. The Many Reboots of the Batman / Eileen R. Meehan.
PART II: STRUCTURE AND NARRATIVE -- 4. The Edge of Reality: Replicating Blade Runner / Constantine Verevis -- 5. Gender, Genre and the Reboot: From Ocean’s 11/Eleven to Ocean’s 8/Eight / Jennifer Forrest -- 6. Understanding Twin Peaks: The Return as a ‘Film Reboot’ via Anti-Franchise Discourses Within Media Franchising / Matt Hills -- 7. All This Has Happened Before: Mythic Repetition in the Film-to-Television Reboot / Nicholas Benson & Jonathan Gray
PART III: POLITICS AND IDENTITY -- 8. Resistance and Empire: Star Wars and the Social Justice Reboot / Derek Johnson -- 9. Rebooting the Politics of the Sports Melodrama: Creed vs. Rocky / Chuck Tryon -- 10. Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot / Claire Perkins
PART IV: FANS AND AUDIENCES -- 11. Reboot, Requel, Legacyquel: Jurassic World and the Nostalgia Franchise / Kathleen Loock -- 12. Worldbuilding, Retconning, and Legacy Rebooting: Alien and Contemporary Media Franchise Strategies / James Fleury -- 13. Anticipating the Reboot: Teasing Top Gun 2 / Paul Grainge -- 14. A Dark Knight on Elm Street: Discursive Regimes of (Sub) Cultural Value, Paratextual Bonding, and the Perils of Remaking and Rebooting Canonical Horror Cinema / William Proctor
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