From Film Adaptation to Post-Celluloid Adaptation

Dr. Costas Constandinides is a Lecturer in the Communications Department at The University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He teaches Film studies and Television Studies. Undergraduate studies at the University of Cyprus (B.A in English Studies, 2002); Graduate studies at the University of Reading, UK (MA Film and Theatre, 2003, Ph.D in Film/TV Adaptation, 2007), where he taught Film and Television courses in the Department of Film, Theatre and Television.

• Introduction; 1. Towards the Intertextual Dialogism Approach; 2. Towards Post-celluloid Adaptation; 3. From the Pre-diction of Crime to the Pre-vision of Screenless Media: Spielberg's Adaptation of Philip K. Dick's The Minority Report; 4. Adapting the Literature of the Double: Manifestations of Cinematic Forms in Fight Club and Enduring Love; 5. Bullet-time, Blood Spraying Time, and the Adaptation of the Graphic Novel; 6. From Shadows to Excess: New Media Hollywood and the Digitizing of Gothic Monsters in Van Helsing; 7. Puppet Kong vs. Synthetic Kong: Peter Jackson's King Kong as Post-celluloid Adaptation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

This challenging and energetic book places adaptation studies in a new media context and in the process offers us a model for interrogating the post-celluloid adaptation. This book revisits the thorny question of the limits of adaptation with subtlety and sophistication and offers compelling readings of some of the most commercially successful and popular film adaptations of recent times, strengthened by a firm grasp of contemporary industry processes and an intelligent investigation of new media paradigms. It will be a significant contribution to the field. --Imelda Whelehan, Director, Centre for Adaptations, De Montfort University