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Adapting visual references in concept art for films and video games in design uncanny monsters 改编电影和电子游戏概念艺术中的视觉参考，设计神秘的怪物

Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jafp_00093_1

Gianluca Balla

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Jaws, anthropocentrism and cinema as a monster-making machine 《大白鲨》、人类中心主义和作为怪物制造机器的电影

Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jafp_00087_1

B. Mills

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Television Series as Literature, Winckler Reto and Huertas-Martín Víctor (eds) (2021) 作为文学的电视剧，温克勒·雷托和Huertas-Martín Víctor(编辑)(2021)

Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jafp_00096_5

Lucia Esposito

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The Reproachful Head of the Green Knight: Exploring the eerie, liminality, deep time and duration in ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ 绿骑士的责备之头:探索《高文爵士与绿骑士》中的怪诞、模糊、深刻的时间和持续时间

Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jafp_00089_1

M. Eden

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Wendigo, vampires and Lovecraft: Intertextual monstrosity and cultural otherness in video games Wendigo, vampires和Lovecraft:电子游戏中的互文怪物和文化差异性

Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jafp_00092_1

André Cowen

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I’ll be grotesque before your eyes: The expanding monstrousness between Is This Scary? (1993) and Michael Jackson’s Ghosts (1996) 我将在你眼前变得怪诞:这可怕吗?(1993)和迈克尔·杰克逊的《幽灵》(1996)

Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jafp_00088_1

Sam R. M. Geden

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The remaking of tokusatsu monsters 重制德摄怪兽

Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jafp_00090_1

A. Longo

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The phoenix rises: Peeter Rebane on Firebird 凤凰升起:彼得·雷班在火鸟上

Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jafp_00095_7

Tom Ue

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Dr Jekyll and/or Mr Hyde: The two versions of David Edgar’s stage adaptation 化身博士和海德先生:大卫·埃德加改编的两个版本

Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jafp_00086_1

David Cottis

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Editorial: Making Monsters, Building Terror 社论:制造怪物，制造恐怖

Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jafp_00085_2

B. Pinsent, Richard J. Hand

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