Beyond Adaptation
Beyond Adaptation

Author: Phyllis Frus

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2010-03-16

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0786455780

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Some film and novel revisions go so far beyond adaptation that they demand a new designation. This critical collection explores movies, plays, essays, comics and video games that supersede adaptation to radically transform their original sources. Fifteen essays investigate a variety of texts that rework everything from literary classics to popular children's books, demonstrating how these new, stand-alone creations critically engage their sources and contexts. Particular attention is paid to parody, intertextuality, and fairy-tale transformations in the examination of these works, which occupy a unique narrative and creative space.

Screen Adaptation: Beyond the Basics
Screen Adaptation: Beyond the Basics

Author: Eric R. Williams

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-28

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1317364031

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Once you understand the basics of screenwriting, ideas for your next screenplay are everywhere. Whether it comes from a favorite children’s book, a summer novel you discover accidentally, a news story that catches your imagination, or a chapter from your own life — advanced screenwriting strategies should now guide you through your first adaptation. In Screen Adaptation: Beyond the Basics, award-winning screenwriter Eric Williams uses examples from award-winning screenplays to explain new storytelling techniques. His real-world examples illustrate a range of advanced approaches — including new ways to identify and craft tension, how to reimagine structure and character, and how to strengthen emotional depth in your characters and in the audience. Screen Adaptation: Beyond the Basics teaches readers new ways to engage with source material in order to make successful adaptation decisions, regardless of the source material. The book offers: Three detailed examples of award-winning adaptations by the author, including the complete short story and final scripts used in the Voices From the Heartland project; Breakout boxes highlighting modern and historical adaptations and providing examples for each concept discussed in the book; More than fifty charts providing easy-to-use visual representations of complex concepts; New screenwriting techniques developed by the author, including the Triangle of Knowledge, the Storyteller’s Parallax, and the idea of Super Genres as part of a Screenwriters Taxonomy.

Adaptation and Beyond
Adaptation and Beyond

Author: Eva C. Karpinski

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-09-29

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1000956253

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This interdisciplinary collection focuses on recent adaptations, both experimental and popular, that put hybridity, transtextuality, and transmediality at play. It reframes adaptation in terms of the transmedia concept of "world-building," which accurately captures the complexity and multidirectionality of contemporary scattered and ubiquitous practices of adaptation. The Editors argue that the process of moving stories or their elements across different media platforms and repurposing them for new uses results in the production of hybrid transtextualities. The book demonstrate how hybrid textualities augment narrative and literary forms as goals of their world-building, finding unexpected sites of cross-pollination, expansion, and appropriation in spoken-word and dance performance, (auto)biographical comics, advertising, Chinese Kun opera, and popular song lyrics. This yoking of hybridity and transmediality yields not only diversified and often commercialized aesthetic forms but also enables the emergence a unique cultural space in-between, a mezzaterra capable of addressing current political issues and mobilizing broader audiences

A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation
A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation

Author: Carolyn Kousky

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2021-05-20

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1642831395

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Tens of millions of Americans are at risk from sea level rise, increased tidal flooding, and intensifying storms. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation identifies a bold new research and policy agenda and provides implementable options for coastal communities responding to these threats. In this book, coastal adaptation experts present a range of climate adaptation policies that could protect coastal communities against increasing risk, including concrete financing recommendations. Coastal adaptation will not be easy, but it is achievable using varied approaches. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation will inspire innovative and cross-disciplinary thinking about coastal policy at the state and local level while providing actionable, realistic policy and planning options for adaptation professionals and policymakers.

Beyond Belief
Beyond Belief

Author: Johannes M. Luetz

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-04-03

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 3030676021

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This interdisciplinary book explores the science and spirituality nexus in the Pacific Islands Region and as such makes a critical contribution to sustainable climate change adaptation in Oceania. In addition to presenting case studies, literary analyses, field projects, and empirical research, the book describes faith-engaged approaches through the prism of: • Context: past, present, and future prospects• Theory: concepts, narratives, and theoretical frameworks• Practice: empirical research and praxis-informed case examples• Doctrine: scriptural contributions and perspectives• Engagement: enlisting religious stakeholders and constituencies Comprising peer-reviewed works by scholars, professionals, and practitioners from across Oceania, the book closes a critical gap in the literature and represents a groundbreaking contribution to holistic climate change adaptation in the Pacific Islands Region that is scientifically sound, spiritually attuned, locally meaningful, and contextually compelling.

Emigrating Beyond Earth
Emigrating Beyond Earth

Author: Cameron M Smith

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-06-09

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1461411653

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Emigrating Beyond Earth puts space colonization into the context of human evolution. Rather than focusing on the technologies and strategies needed to colonize space, the authors examine the human and societal reasons for space colonization. They make space colonization seems like a natural step by demonstrating that if will continue the human species' 4 million-year-old legacy of adaptation to difficult new environments. The authors present many examples from the history of human expansion into new environments, including two amazing tales of human colonization - the prehistoric settlement of the upper Arctic around 5,000 years ago and the colonization of the Pacific islands around 3,000 years ago - which show that space exploration is no more about rockets and robots that Arctic exploration was about boating!

Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk
Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk

Author: Geoff O'Brien

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-24

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1136866817

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Climate change is the single largest threat to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and sustainable development. Addressing climate risk is a challenge for all. This book calls for greater collaboration between climate communities and disaster development communities. In discussing this, the book will evaluate the approaches used by each community to reduce the adverse effects of climate change. One area that offers some promise for bringing together these communities is through the concept of resilience. This term is increasingly used in each community to describe a process that embeds capacity to respond to and cope with disruptive events. This emphasizes an approach that is more focused on pre-event planning and using strategies to build resilience to hazards in an adaptation framework. The book will conclude by evaluating the scope for a holistic approach where these communities can effectively contribute to building communities that are resilient to climate driven risks.

Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel (A Young Reader's Adaptation)
Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel (A Young Reader's Adaptation)

Author: Carl Safina

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press

Published: 2019-04-23

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1250144639

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A young reader’s adaptation of The New York Times bestseller Follow researcher Carl Safina as he treks with a herd of elephants across the Kenyan landscape, then travel with him to the Pacific Northwest to track and monitor whales in their ocean home. Along the way, find out more about the interior lives of these giants of land and sea—how they play, how they fight, and how they communicate with one another, and sometimes with us, too. Weaving decades of field research with exciting new discoveries about the brain and featuring astonishing photographs taken by the author, Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel gives readers an intimate and extraordinary look at what makes these animals different from us, but more important, what makes us all similar.

Beyond Gender Differences
Beyond Gender Differences

Author: Laurie Russell Hatch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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Putting gender in a lifespan context, Hatch (sociology, U. of Kentucky) atypically accents the gains as well as losses of aging and sex differences in adaptation overall, to the death of a spouse, and to retirement. From the multifactored theoretical perspectives of symbolic interactionism and polit

Breaking Down Language and Cultural Barriers Through Contemporary Global Marketing Strategies
Breaking Down Language and Cultural Barriers Through Contemporary Global Marketing Strategies

Author: Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-06-14

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1522569812

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One of the most challenging obstacles for many businesses in successfully reaching a global market stems from cultural and language barriers and the lack of a clear understanding of this issue. It is critical for businesses to understand these cultural and language barriers and how to face them through effective communications and cultural sensitivity. The companies that will thrive and see the most success are the ones whose employees communicate and collaborate effectively with customers, suppliers, and partners all over the world. Breaking Down Language and Cultural Barriers Through Contemporary Global Marketing Strategies provides both empirical and theoretical research focused on ways that business professionals and organizations are breaking down cultural and language barriers, integrating cultural sensitivity, and implementing cross-cultural management practices into their daily business practices. Featuring research on topics such as origin effects, consumption culture, and cross-cultural management, managers, consultants, academic researchers, practitioners, business educators, and advanced students in various disciplines will find the content within this publication to be beneficial.