Adaptation Studies
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I have just learnt that an old acquaintance (a writer, one I haven't met for over two decades) claims to be in a field called "Adaptation Studies."
I tried to look up "Adaptation Studies" and found that:
- Wikipedia does not have an article specifically on "Adaptation Studies" yet
- The first page hits from Google about "Adaptation Studies" are papers/publications talking about how much and how quickly the field is changing (rather than anything with a short passage that actually says what "Adaptation Studies" is).
I asked ChatGPT and got something like this:
click to showSo, from what little I have seen, "Adaptation Studies" must be something fairly new as a field, but likely with just enough being written about it before 2021 for it to make it into ChatGPT's model.
Now I am curious ... any of you folks know about "Adaptation Studies" as a field of study before seeing the term here? If you do, what do you think of it?
@Aqua-Letifer, among TNCR regulars, it seems to me you are more likely to know about something like
... what do you think of it? -
I have never hear of it before. Seems like a very "niche" area to be involved with. But, like many things, there is probably more under the surface than appears to me.
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I have just learnt that an old acquaintance (a writer, one I haven't met for over two decades) claims to be in a field called "Adaptation Studies."
I tried to look up "Adaptation Studies" and found that:
- Wikipedia does not have an article specifically on "Adaptation Studies" yet
- The first page hits from Google about "Adaptation Studies" are papers/publications talking about how much and how quickly the field is changing (rather than anything with a short passage that actually says what "Adaptation Studies" is).
I asked ChatGPT and got something like this:
click to showSo, from what little I have seen, "Adaptation Studies" must be something fairly new as a field, but likely with just enough being written about it before 2021 for it to make it into ChatGPT's model.
Now I am curious ... any of you folks know about "Adaptation Studies" as a field of study before seeing the term here? If you do, what do you think of it?
@Aqua-Letifer, among TNCR regulars, it seems to me you are more likely to know about something like
... what do you think of it?@Axtremus said in Adaptation Studies:
@Aqua-Letifer, among TNCR regulars, it seems to me you are more likely to know about something like
... what do you think of it?It's something we covered a lot in my master's, with some emphasis on commercial application.
I think as a "Study" it's bullocks.
As a practice, it's very difficult. To create a good adaptation, you have to have developed sufficient sensibility in both the original medium, and in the one you intend to adapt it to. That's why "the book was better" is such a cliché.
Back in the day, though, Disney were the undisputed masters at this.
