Beyond Adaptation

Phyllis Frus is an associate professor of English and chair of the English department at Hawai‘i Pacific University. Christy Williams is an instructor of English at Hawai‘i Pacific University and a doctoral candidate at the University of Hawai‘i. She lives in Honolulu.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction: Making the Case for Transformation      1. Borrowing a Melody: Jane Campion’s The Piano and IntertextualityPHYLLIS FRUS      2. Adaptation, The Orchid Thief, and the Subversion of Hollywood ConventionsDEVIN HARNER      3. Historical Figures Transformed: Free Enterprise and I, Tituba, Black Witch of SalemMARNI GAUTHIER      4. Post-Colonial Transformation: The Rejection of English in Gavin Hood’s TsotsiANNE M. REEF      5. Transforming Great Expectations: Dickens, Cuarón, and the BildungsromanANTJE S. ANDERSON      6. A Fuller Statement of the Case: Mary Reilly and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeLAURIE F. LEACH      7. Transforming Shakespeare: Neil Gaiman and The SandmanJULIA ROUND      8. On the Trail of the Butterfly: D. H. Hwang and TransformationDEBORAH L. ROSS      9. Wicked and Wonderful Witches: Narrative and Gender Negotiations from The Wizard of Oz to WickedALISSA BURGER      10. “Wonderland’s become quite strange”: From Lewis Carroll’s Alice to American McGee’s AliceCATHLENA MARTIN      11. Stories to Live By: Re-Framing Storytelling in the Arabian Nights MiniseriesJENNIFER ORME      12. Mulan: Disney’s Hybrid HeroineLAN DONG      13. Mass-Marketing “Beauty”: How a Feminist Heroine Became an Insipid Disney PrincessMARC DIPAOLO      14. Four Times Upon a Time: “Snow White” RetoldSTELLA BOLAKI      15. Mermaid Tales on Screen: Splash, The Little Mermaid, and AquamarineCHRISTY WILLIAMS      About the Contributors      Index

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