Television and Serial Adaptation

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by Shannon Wells-Lassagne

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > TV Series

Keywords

TV Series, remake, serials

Publishing date

2019

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Advances in Television Studies

1st publishing

2017

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 228 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-367-88999-9

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Book Presentation:
As American television continues to garner considerable esteem, rivalling the seventh art in its "cinematic" aesthetics and the complexity of its narratives, one aspect of its development has been relatively unexamined. While film has long acknowledged its tendency to adapt, an ability that contributed to its status as narrative art (capable of translating canonical texts onto the screen), television adaptations have seemingly been relegated to the miniseries or classic serial. From remakes and reboots to transmedia storytelling, loose adaptations or adaptations which last but a single episode, the recycling of pre-existing narrative is a practice that is just as common in television as in film, and this text seeks to rectify that oversight, examining series from M*A*S*H to Game of Thrones, Pride and Prejudice to Castle.

About the Author:
Shannon Wells-Lassagne is Senior Lecturer at the University of Burgundy-Franche Comté in Dijon, France

See the publisher website: Routledge