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Reimagining the Past to Construct the Future: Nostalgia and Netflix’s She-Ra 重塑过去构建未来:怀旧和Netflix的She-Ra

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Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-02 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad018

Sara Austin

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TV Cloning as Transcultural Adaptation: The Reformatting of the Medea Myth via Doctor Foster 电视克隆作为跨文化改编:从福斯特医生看美狄亚神话的重新格式化

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Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-04 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad011

Eckart Voigts, Heebon Park-Finch

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Bite-Sizing Digital Literature in theTwenty-First Century 二十一世纪的数字文学

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Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad012

Kamilla Elliott

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Intangibility and Selfhood: Westworld as Allegory for Adaptation in the Digital Age 无形与自我:西部世界作为数字时代适应的寓言

2区文学

Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad021

Christina Wilkins

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Introduction: Remixing the Classics 介绍:混音经典

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Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad020

Erin Sullivan

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Adaptation as Emancipation in Edward Albee’s Lolita 改编是爱德华·阿尔比《洛丽塔》中的解放

IF 0.3 2区文学

Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-26 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad022

M. Holtz

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Reconnecting Memory and Recovering from Trauma: The Adaptation of The Deep from a Song to a Novella 重新连接记忆，从创伤中恢复:从一首歌到中篇小说的改编

IF 0.3 2区文学

Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-11 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad017

Longyan Wang

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Adaptation as Process: A Genetic Edition of Andrew Davies’ Middlemarch (BBC/WGBH, 1994) 作为过程的适应:安德鲁·戴维斯《米德尔马契》的遗传版(BBC/WGBH, 1994)

IF 0.3 2区文学

Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-11 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad019

Justin Smith, Lucy Hobbs

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‘She Don’t Speak, But She Remembers’: Shakespeare’s Silent Specters in A Song of Ice and Fire “她不说话，但她记得”:《冰与火之歌》中莎士比亚沉默的幽灵

IF 0.3 2区文学

Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-08 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad009

J. Kellermann

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From Cheerful Bedtime Story to Sad Christmas Film: How Medium, Mode, and Genre Reshape We’re Going on a Bear Hunt 从欢乐的睡前故事到悲伤的圣诞电影：媒介、模式和流派如何重塑我们的猎熊之旅

IF 0.3 2区文学

Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apad008

Maureen Hosay

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