ABSTRACT
This book offers a new perspective on adaptation of books to the screen; by focusing on endings, new light is shed on this key facet of film and television studies. The authors look at a broad range of case studies from different genres, eras, countries and formats to analyse literary and cinematic traditions, technical considerations and ideological issues involved in film and television adaptions.
The investigation covers both the ideological implications of changes made in adapting the final pages to the screen, as well as the aesthetic stance taken in modifying (or on the contrary, maintaining) the ending of the source text. By including writings on both film and television adaptations, this book examines the array of possibilities for the closure of an adapted narrative, focusing both on the specificities of film and different television forms (miniseries and ongoing television narratives) and at the same time suggesting the commonalities of these audiovisual forms in their closing moments.
Adapting Endings from Book to Screen will be of interest to all scholars working in media studies, film and television studies, and adaptation studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|40 pages
Creating an ending
part II|26 pages
The politics of endings
chapter 4|9 pages
Adapting and subverting Richard Slotkin’s Regeneration Through Violence
part III|37 pages
Adapting to the small screen
chapter 6|12 pages
Serial adaptation
chapter 7|11 pages
The ouroboros of television prequels
part IV|45 pages
Questioning endings