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Adaptation
Studies

New Challenges, New
Directions

Edited by Jrgen Bruhn,
A nne Gjelsvik and
E irik Frisvold Hanssen

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Jrgen Bruhn, Anne Gjelsvik, Eirik Frisvold Hanssen and contributors 2013

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Adaptation studies : new challenges, new directions / edited by Jrgen Bruhn, Anne Gjelsvik, and Eirik Frisvold Hanssen.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-4411-9266-0 (pbk.) - ISBN 978-1-4411-9467-1 (hardcover) - ISBN 978-1-4411-0647-6 (ebook) - ISBN 978-1-4411-2796-9 (ebook) 1. Literature-Adaptations-History and criticism. 2. Film adaptations-History and criticism. I. Bruhn, Jrgen. II. Gjelsvik, Anne. III. Hanssen, Eirik Frisvold.

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CONTENTS

Jrgen Bruhn, PhD is Professor in Comparative Literature at Linnus University, Sweden. Bruhn has written monographs on Marcel Proust (with Bo Degn Rasmussen) and M. M. Bakhtin, and articles on the theory of the novel, medieval literature and culture, Cervantes and Cassirer, and intermediality. Recent publications include Heteromediality, in Lars Ellestrm (ed.), Media Borders, Intermediality and Multimodality (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010) and a book-length study called Lovely Violence: The Critical Romances of Chrtien de Troyes (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). With Anne Gjelsvik and Henriette Thune, he published Parallel Worlds to Possible Meanings in Let the Right One In in Word & Image (, 2011). He is currently writing on intermedial theory and adaptation studies.

Anne Gjelsvik , Dr. Art/PhD is Professor in Film Studies at the Department of Art and Media Studies at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Gjelsvik has worked on popular cinema, film violence and ethics and the representation of gender in the media over a period of ten years. She has written extensively in Norwegian, her most central books being her latest publication on film and violence, Bad and Beautiful, and her book on film reviewing, Eyes of Darkness: Film Reviewing, Analysis and Judgements ( Mrkets yne. Filmkritikk, analyse og vurdering ) (Universitetsforlaget, 2002). She is currently working on intermediality and adaptation, as well as a book on representations of fatherhood in contemporary American cinema, and is member of the board of International Society for Intermedial Studies.

Eirik Frisvold Hanssen is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. He has written on colour and early cinema, adaptation and intermediality, film technology and aesthetics, fashion, visual culture, and Scandinavian television history, and published in journals such as Film History . Publications include Early Discourses on Colour and Cinema: Origins, Functions, Meanings (PhD diss., Stockholm University, 2006) and The Paradoxes of Textual Fidelity: Translation and Intertitles in Victor Sjstrms Silent Film Adaptation of Henrik Ibsens Terje Vigen (with Anna Sofia Rossholm, 2012).

Thomas Leitch teaches English and directs the Film Studies Program at the University of Delaware, US. His most recent books are Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to the Passion of the Christ, A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock (co-edited with Leland Poague) and the forthcoming The Lessons of Adaptation.

Kamilla Elliott is a Senior Lecturer of English Literature at Lancaster University, UK. She taught Victorian studies and interdisciplinary literature/film studies at the University of California at Berkeley from 19962004. During that time, she wrote articles on literature and film and published Rethinking the Novel/Film Debate (CUP, 2003), and has recently published her second monograph, Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction: The Rise of Picture Identification 17641835 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). She is currently writing a monograph on adaptation theory.

Regina Schober teaches American literature and culture at the University of Mannheim, Germany. She obtained a PhD in American Studies from the University of Hannover in 2009. Her dissertation, entitled Unexpected Chords: Musico-Poetic Intermediality in Amy Lowells Poetry and Poetics , was recently published by Universittsverlag Winter. Her research and teaching interests include, among others, American Modernism, Intermediality, Poetry, the American Grotesque and War Representation. She is currently working on her habilitation thesis on network aesthetics and virtual space.

Lars Ellestrm is Professor of Comparative Literature at Linnus University, Sweden. He organizes the Forum for Intermedial Studies, Linnus University, and chairs the board of the International Society for Intermedial Studies. Ellestrm has written and edited several books, including Divine Madness: On Interpreting Literature, Music, and the Visual Arts Ironically (Bucknell University Press, 2002) and Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality ( Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He has also published numerous articles on poetry, intermediality, gender and irony.

Jonas Ingvarsson , PhD is Associate Professor in Literary Studies at Karlstad Univeristy. His dissertation En besynnerlig gemenskap. Teknologins gestalter i svensk prosa 196570 [A Strange Community: Figures of Technology in Swedish Prose Writings 196570] (2003), dealt with issues of posthumanism, cybernetics and intermediality. Among his recent publications is an anthology on the avant-garde and technology ( Media and Materiality in the Neo-Avant-Garde , Peter Lang GmbH, 2012, (ed.) together with Jesper Olsson). Currently, he is involved in the research project Representations and Reconfigurations of the Digital in Swedish Literature and Art 19502010.

Anna Sofia Rossholm, PhD is an Associate Professor at Linnus University, Sweden. Her research combines a film historical interest with media theoretical perspectives and cultural theory. Her most central research discusses film versions in European cinema of the 1920s and 1930s in a modernity context. Her current research, undertaken at Sorbonne Paris III, deals with the reception of Swedish films of the 1920s and 1960s in France.