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Animation, Adaptation, and the Plague 动画，改编和瘟疫

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Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-03 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad029

Andrew Dix, Sara Read

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Mr. Blandings and the Advertisers’ Dream: The Role of Marketing in the Adaptation Process 布兰丁斯先生与广告主的梦想:营销在适应过程中的作用

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Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-03 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad032

Daria Goncharova

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Gentleman Jaggers: The Real Innovation in FX’s Great Expectations and Why Critics Didn't See It 贾格斯先生:FX《远大抱负》的真正创新，以及评论家为何没有看到它

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Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-28 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad023

Nancy M West

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Embodying Adaptation: Character and the Body 体现适应:性格与身体

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Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad024

Emer McHugh

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Beyond Historicity: Aesthetic Authenticity in Cinematic Adaptations of Non-/Anti-Realist Fiction 超越历史性:非/反现实主义小说电影改编中的美学真实性

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Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-23 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad026

Yosr Dridi

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The Paper-Engineered Pumpkin King: Exposing the Movable Impulse of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas 纸工程南瓜王:揭露蒂姆·伯顿的《圣诞前的噩梦》中可移动的冲动

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Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-23 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad031

Jodie Coates

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Authenticity and Adaptation: Reflections on the Association of Adaptation Studies Conference 2023, University of Birmingham 真实性和适应:对适应研究协会2023年会议的反思，伯明翰大学

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Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-22 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad027

Ryan Borochovitz

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Becky Thatcher’s Literary Half-life: Appropriating Mark Twain’s Good Girl 贝基·撒切尔的文学半衰期:改编马克·吐温的《好女孩》

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Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-15 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad030

Edward A Shannon

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Theorising the Uncanny Adaptation through Hamlet 从《哈姆雷特》看《离奇改编》的理论化

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Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad028

Mckenzie Bergan

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Adaptation Before Cinema: Literary and Visual Convergence from Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century 电影之前的改编:从古代到19世纪的文学和视觉融合

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Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-07 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad025

Joe Kember

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