[Commlist] new book Anamorphic Authorship in Canonical Film Adaptation: A Case Study of Shakespearean Films

New publication

/Anamorphic Authorship in Canonical Film Adaptation: A Case Study of 
Shakespearean Films/ with Palgrave Macmillan 
(https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030164959#aboutBook)
by Robert Geal

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.


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