Challenging Adaptation Studies: A Review of Comics and Adaptation

Abstract

Comics and Adaptation, edited by Benoît Mitaine, David Roche and Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot, translated by Aarnoud Rommens and David Roche, University Press of Mississippi; 238 pages, 2018, ISBN 978-1-4968-0337-5 This review discusses the contents of the edited collection Comics and Adaptation (edited by Benoît Mitaine, David Roche and Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot, translated by Aarnoud Rommens and David Roche, University Press of Mississippi 2018) and comments on the translation of the text. The review concludes that this is a timely and useful collection which challenges some of the presuppositions of adaptation studies.

Keywords

• adaptation
• films
• literature
• TV shows
• transmedia