[ecrea] New Publication: Translation and Adaptation in Theatre and Film

The latest volume of the Routledge Advances and Theatre and Performance
Studies Series, *Translation and Adaptation in Theatre and Film *edited by
Katja Krebs, is now available.

This book provides a pioneering and provocative exploration of the rich 
synergies between adaptation studies and translation studies and is the 
first genuine attempt to discuss the rather loose usage of the concepts 
of translation and adaptation in terms of theatre and film. At the heart 
of this collection is the proposition that translation studies and 
adaptation studies have much to offer each other in practical and 
theoretical terms and can no longer exist independently from one 
another. As a result, it generates productive ideas within the contact 
zone between these two fields of study, both through new theoretical 
paradigms and detailed case studies. Such closely intertwined areas as 
translation and adaptation need to encounter each other's methodologies 
and perspectives in order to develop ever more rigorous approaches to 
the study of adaptation and translation phenomena, challenging current 
assumptions and prejudices in terms of both. The book includes 
contributions as diverse yet interrelated as Bakhtin's notion of 
translation and adaptation, Bollywood adaptations of 
Shakespeare's/ Othello/, and an analysis of performance practice, itself 
arguably an adaptive practice, which uses a variety of languages from 
English and Greek to British and International Sign-Language. As 
translation and adaptation practices are an integral part of global 
cultural and political activities and agendas, it is ever more important 
to study such occurrences of rewriting and reshaping. By exploring and 
investigating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives and 
approaches, this volume investigates the impact such occurrences of 
rewriting have on the constructions and experiences of cultures while at 
the same time developing a rigorous methodological framework which will 
form the basis of future scholarship on performance and film, 
translation and adaptation.