Anamorphic Authorship in Canonical Film Adaptation

Robert Geal is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He has published numerous scholarly articles on topics including authorship in adaptation, gender and sexuality in animation, spectacle in science fiction, race in television comedy, and the historical development of adaptation studies and film theory.

• 1. Introduction.- Part I: From Barthesian and Bakhtinian to Benvenistene Adaptation Studies: Theories of Film Adaptation.- 2. Dialogism and the Radical Text.- 3. Poststructuralism and the Radical Critic.- 4. The Dead Author and the Concealed Author.- Part II: The Drama of Authorship: A Taxonomy of Anamorphic Authorship.- 5. 'Fainomaic' Adaptation from the Verbal to the Visual.- 6. 'Állagmic' Adaptation from Shakespearean to Non-(/Less-)Shakespearean Settings.- 7. The Drama of Foreknowledge.- 8. The Drama of the Diegetic Author.- 9. Conclusion.