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Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, Numbers 1.1, 1.2 (Intellect), Richard J. Hand and Katja Krebs, eds
* Clemson University.E-mail:ppalmer@clemson.edu
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Arguably, the most important development during the last two decades in cultural studies has been the increasing focus on adaptation, which can now claim to be a separate field unto itself, worthy of the prominence that specialized journals would afford it. The appearance last year of Adaptation, sponsored by a prominent university press, was thus a signal event. Adaptation provides a general forum for the advancement, discussion, and dissemination of both the research and theoretical insights of scholars who, though drawn from a number of disparate disciplines, share a deep interest in the textual, contextual, historical, institutional, and reception aspects of a transtextual practice whose centrality to cultural production has now been recognized. The field,