Author: kristenfiggins

  • Call for Reviewers – Upcoming Film Adaptations

    I’m currently commissioning film reviews for upcoming issues of Adaptation (Oxford University Press) and looking for contributors interested in writing on newly released or soon-to-be-released adaptations. Some of these films are already available, while others are on the horizon. But if you’d like to “call dibs” and contribute a timely review, I’d…

  • CFP: Jekyll and Hyde

    Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the most adapted, parodied, and referenced works of Gothic fiction. Even those who have never read the novella know the “story,” or at least the twist: Henry Jekyll becomes Edward Hyde to live a double life,…

  • “‘In New York You Can Be a New Man’: Adapting American Mythology in Hamilton”

    “‘In New York You Can Be a New Man’: Adapting American Mythology in Hamilton”

    Author: Rachel M. Hartnett, College of Coastal Georgia, Survey of American LiteraturePeer-Reviewers: Kathryn McClain and James FleuryWebsite Developer: Kristen Figgins Summary This lesson originates from a lower-division undergraduate survey of American literature I taught at the University of Florida in Fall 2018. The course served as an introduction to well-known texts and authors…

  • “L’Inferno (1911): Encountering Adaptation Through Silent Cinema”

    “L’Inferno (1911): Encountering Adaptation Through Silent Cinema”

    Author: T. A. Morris, University of Florida, LIT2110–World Literature: Ancient to RenaissancePeer-Reviewers: Kathryn McClain and James FleuryWebsite Developer: Kristen Figgins Lesson Title: “L’Inferno (1911): Encountering Adaptation Through Silent Cinema” Summary This lesson covers a screening and discussion of the Dantescan silent film adaptation L’Inferno (1911). Italian and English language editions of this film…

  • Feeling Gawain, or What I Learned Teaching Adaptation Today

    Feeling Gawain, or What I Learned Teaching Adaptation Today

    Author: Brooke Allan CarlsonPeer-Reviewers: Kathryn McClain and James FleuryWebsite Developer: Kristen Figgins I teach a 200-level literature survey of British literature, from the beginning to the Age of Enlightenment. I have students read “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” a fourteenth-century poem by the anonymous Pearl Poet. In this survey, students start by…

  • Theories, Methods, and New Directions

    Theories, Methods, and New Directions

  • Building Professional Pathways in Adaptation Studies

    Building Professional Pathways in Adaptation Studies

  • CFP: Feeling the Limits: Censorship and Creative Freedom in Theatre, Film, and Visual Arts in the Age of Populism

    Artistic freedom has been recognised as an international right that needs to be protected because it is threatened when artists question political ideologies, religious beliefs, and social mores. However, today the meaning of such concepts as “artistic freedom” or “freedom of expression” seems more complex and in need of greater…

  • Using Nineteen Eighty-Four to Adapt Experience in the Classroom

    Using Nineteen Eighty-Four to Adapt Experience in the Classroom

    Author: Matthew Ari Elfenbein, Ph.D.Peer-Reviewers: Kathryn McClain and James FleuryWebsite Developer: Kristen Figgins Course: “Film Criticism” at Florida Atlantic University  What I learned teaching adaptation today is that students can deeply engage with film adaptations like Nineteen Eighty-Four (Michael Radford, 1984) even without prior knowledge of the source material. The film’s bleak portrayal of oppression…

  • Review a Shakespeare Adaptation

    Review a Shakespeare Adaptation

    Developed for a “Shakespeare on Screen” course, this assignment focuses on evaluating reviews of Shakespeare films appearing in the film magazine Empire.