The Politics of Adaptation

List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on the Contributors Introduction; Dan Hassler-Forest and Pascal Nicklas PART I: ADAPTING THE PAST: POLITICS AND HISTORY 1. History as Adaptation; Thomas Leitch 2. Voyeuristic Revisionism?: (Re-)Viewing the Politics of Neo-Victorian Adaptations; Caterina Grasl 3. Cultural Nostalgia, Orientalist Ideology, and Heritage Film; Antonija Primorac PART II: ADAPTING AUTHORSHIP: POLITICS AND CONVERGENCE 4. Emerging from Converging Cultures: Circulation, Adaptation, and Value; Timothy Corrigan 5. Transmediality and the Politics of Adaptation: Concepts, Forms, and Strategies; Jens Eder 6. Bastards and Pirates, Remixes and Multitudes: The Politics of Mash-Up Transgression and the Polyprocesses of Cultural Jazz; Eckart Voigts PART III: ADAPTING POSTCOLONIALISM: POLITICS AND RACE 7. 'Bergman in Uganda': Ugandan Veejays, Swedish Pirates, and the Political Value of Live Adaptation; Lindiwe Dovey 8. Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning and the Politics of Adaptation in African Literature; Aaron Bady 9. Michael Jackson and Afrofuturism: HIStory's Adaptation of Past, Present and Future; Erik Steinskog PART IV: ADAPTING NATIONALITY: POLITICS AND GLOBALIZATION 10. The End of the Hollywood 'Rip-Off'? Changes in the Bollywood Politics of Copyright; Lucia Krämer 11. Adapting Tasmania: Terrorizing the Past; Imelda Whelehan 12. Laibach's Subversive Adaptations; Darko Strajn PART V: ADAPTING GENRE: POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE 13. Game of Thrones: The Politics of World-building and the Cultural Logic of Gentrification; Dan Hassler-Forest 14. You Think You Know the Story: Novelty, Repetition, and Lovecraft in Whedon and Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods; Gerry Canavan 15. Stop/Watch: Repressing History, Adapting ; Jacob Brogan PART VI: ADAPTING THE BODY: POLITICS AND GENDER 16. Biopolitics of Adaptation; Pascal Nicklas 17. 'Restrained Glamor': Joe Wright's Anna Karenina, Postfeminism, and Transmedia Biopolitics; Monika Pietrzak-Franger Index

Aaron Bady, University of Texas, USAJacob Brogan, Georgetown University, USAGerry Canavan, Marquette University, USATimothy Corrigan, University of Pennsylvania, USALindiwe Dovey, SOAS, University of London, UKJens Eder, University of Mannheim, GermanyCaterina Grasl, University of Vienna, AustriaDan Hassler-Forest, University of Amsterdam, NetherlandsLucia Krämer, Leibniz University Hanover, GermanyThomas Leitch, University of Delaware, USAPascal Nicklas, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Hamburg University, GermanyAntonija Primorac, University of Split, CroatiaErik Steinskog, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkDarko trajn, Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana, SloveniaEckart Voigts, TU Braunschweig, GermanyImelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, Australia