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Adaptations
An adaptation can be anything from a book based on a movie or the retelling of a classic tale. It is when a story is adapted from another story form or source. Not merely a remake in all cases, some stories are only loosely adapted from original sources or legends.
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Neither the product nor the process of adaptation exists in a vacuum:
they all have a context—a time and a place, a society and a culture.
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― A Theory of Adaptation
― A Theory of Adaptation
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Although adaptations are also aesthetic objects in their own right, it is only as inherently double or multilaminated works that they can be theorized as adaptations.
An adaptation’s double nature does not mean, however, that proximity or fidelity to the adapted text should be the criterion of judgment or the focus of analysis.
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― A Theory of Adaptation
― A Theory of Adaptation
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