Adaptation, Awards Culture, and the Value of Prestige

1. Adaptation and Systems of Cultural Value
Colleen Kennedy-Karpat, Eric Sandberg

Part I. Adapting Award Winners, Awarding Adaptations

2. The Pulitzers Go to Hollywood
Thomas Leitch

3. Beware of Imitations: All about Eve (1950)
Laurence Raw

4. Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall(s) and the Circulation of Cultural Prestige
Eric Sandberg

5. Adapting Queerness, Queering Adaptation: Fun Home on Broadway
Joanna Mansbridge

Part II. Adaptation, Prestige, and the Canon

6. Oliver’s Auteurs: The Cases of Lean and Polanski
Jeffrey E. Jackson

7. Origins, Fidelity, and the Auteur: The Bengali Films of Tapan Sinha
Priyanjali Sen

8. The Fortunes of Jane Austen as Chick Lit and Chick Flick
Anne-Marie Scholz

9. Jazz, Prestige, and Five Great Gatsby Film Adaptations
Michael Saffle

Part III. Locating Prestige

10. Trash Cinema and Oscar Gold: Quentin Tarantino, Intertextuality, and Industry Prestige
Colleen Kennedy-Karpat

11. The Hollywood Remake Massacre: Adaptation, Reception, and Value
Laura Mee

12. “How do I act so well?” The British “Shakespearean” Actor and Cultural Cachet
Anna Blackwell

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Movie and TV Adaptations, Film Theory, Film Production, Sociology of Culture, Literature, general