Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century

Brandon Chua is Assistant Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong and author of Ravishment of Reason: Governance and the Heroic Idioms of the Late Stuart Stage, 1660–1690 (2014).Elizabeth Ho is Assistant Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong and author of Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire (2012). She is Editor- in-Chief of ASAP/Journal, the scholarly journal of ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present.

• Introduction : Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First CenturyBrandon Chua and Elizabeth HoPart I: Beginnings1. Transnational Adaptation: 'The Dead,' 'Fools,' The Dead, and FoolsLiam KrugerPart II: Globalization and Transmediality2. Videogame Adaptation of Literary Texts and Global Influences: A Case Study of Dracula and the Castlevania SeriesMatthew Crofts3. It’s (Still) Alive! Re-imagining Frankenstein on Page and ScreenLaura Collier and Marina Gerzic 4. Mashing-up the Bible’s Passion Story: Transmedia Adaptation and User Participation in the Post-Celluloid Era Dorothy Wai Sim Lau5. The Show that Never Closes: International Adaptations of Opening Night David Pellegrini6. Transmedia Transpositions: Beyoncé and RosalíaEduardo Barros-Grela and Andrea Patiño de Artaza7. Race, Refraction, and Retconning in HBO’s WatchmenChristopher PizzinoPart III: Global Shakespeares8. Playing with Shakespeare in JapanThomas Dabbs, Kyoko Matsuyama, and Rena Endo9. Adaptation as Renewal: the Transformative Impact of Hamlet’s Travels in the Global SouthSandra Young10. Lines of Control and Global Social Justice: Shakespearean Adaptation, British Colonial and Contemporary India and the Question of KashmirJulie SandersPsrt IV: Contesting Gender in Global Hollywood11. The Rebel Trilogy: Adapted Masculinity in Ang Lee’s Ride with the Devil (1999), Hulk (2003), and Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2016)Jason Coe12. Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues and Seder-Masochism: Reading Adaptation as Feminist CritiqueChinmaya Lal Thakur13. Borderlands Adaptation: Staging and Omitting the Memories of Anti-Indigenous Violence in Bless Me, Última (2013) and Arrival (2016)Marcela Di Blasi14. From America to Italy and France: Queering the Many Lives of The Screaming MimiFernando Gabriel Pagnoni BernsPart V: The Global and the National15. International Prize Culture and Transnational Adaptation Eric Sandberg16. Fetishizing Localism and Adapting Yangsze Choo’s The Ghost Bride: From Oral Storytelling to Netflix ProductionSanghamitra Dalal and David H. J. Neo17. Colliding Asias: Crazy Rich Asians as Novel, Film, Adaptation, and SingaporeEdna Lim18. Reconfiguring China: Adaptation, Cultural Prestige, and Soft Power Yi Li19. Adaptation in the New Turkish Cinema M. Mert Orsler and Colleen Kennedy-KarpatPart VI: Recuperating the Past for the Global Present 20. Looking at Adaptation from a Distance: The South Asian Vetala Tales’ Journey Across Time and SpaceIra Sarma21. Adaptation at the Time of Climate Crises: Educating the Audience through Mythical Narratives from the Sundarbans A. B. M. Monirul Huq22. Possessed Ecologies: Cross-Cultural Ghosts and Transnational Environments in Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s Snow in MidsummerJoanna Mansbridge23. De-Colonizing Cloudcuckooland: Re-righting/Re-writing the Blasted Dreamscape of Manifest Destiny in Yvette Nolan’s The BirdsPhillip ZapkinPart VII: Spinoffs24. Cultural Criticism and the Graphic Essay: Innervation, Immersion, and AnalysisJulia Alekseyeva