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Fidelity and Adaptation: Or How To Ruin/Save Your Favourite Book
Week Intro Adaptation films arrive with a specific audience in mind, one…
“We’re Gonna Sing It Again”: Looking Back at Adaptation in Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown (2019)
Part I of III We frequently look back to Orpheus by retelling…
One Story, Several Voices: Transmediality and Adaptation
Week Intro I want to do something different for this week. I…
“Does this Look Like A Kid’s Story to You?”: Alice and Adaptation
For this week’s highlight list, I have chosen a few of my…
“Beyond Everything”: Storytelling and Pathogenic Possession in The Turn of the Screw (1898)
Introduction to pathogenic media and adaptation unit Stories pass from one speaker…
“The Borrowed Soul”: Frankenstein and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
Spoilers Ahead Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio likens Geppetto to Victor Frankenstein with…
Whatever Happened to Pearl?: The Role of Hag Cinema
“You mean, all this time, we could have been friends?” Hollywood is…
The Absent Bride: Fear and Loathing in The Invitation (2022)
Or why The Invitation’s unwarranted poor reviews reflect a history of dismissal.…
The Absent Groom: Vampirism in The Brides of Dracula (1960)
The female vampires featured in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) never kill adults.…