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Dear colleagues,
I am very happy to announce the publication of Anamorphic Authorship in Canonical Film Adaptation: A Case Study of Shakespearean Films with Palgrave Macmillan (https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030164959#aboutBook).
The book develops a new psychoanalytic approach for the study of films adapted from canonical ‘originals’ such as Shakespeare’s plays. Departing from the current consensus that adaptation is a heightened example of how all texts inform
and are informed by other texts, the book instead argues that film adaptations of canonical works extend cinema’s inherent mystification and concealment of its own artifice. Film adaptation consistently manipulates and obfuscates its traces of ‘original’ authorial
enunciation, and oscillates between overtly authored articulation and seemingly un-authored unfolding. To analyse this process, the book moves from a dialogic to a psychoanalytic poststructuralist account of film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays. The differences
between these rival approaches to adaptation are explored in depth in the first part of the book, while the second part constructs a taxonomy of the various ways in which authorial signs are simultaneously foregrounded and concealed in adaptation’s anamorphic
drama of authorship.
Robert Geal is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He has published numerous scholarly articles on topics including authorship in adaptation, gender and sexuality in animation, spectacle
in science fiction, race in television comedy, and the historical development of adaptation studies and film theory.
Dr Robert Geal
Lecturer in Film and Television Studies
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University of Wolverhampton
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Selected recent publications:
‘Frozen’, Homosexuality, and Masochism. Film International, 14(2), 2016, pp.99-111