Renowned literary scholar Linda Hutcheon explores the ubiquity of adaptations
in all their various media incarnations and challenges their constant critical
denigration. Adaptation, Hutcheon argues, has always been a central mode of the
story-telling imagination and deserves to be studied in all its breadth and
range as both a process (of creation and reception) and a product unto its own.
Persuasive and illuminating, A Theory of Adaptation is a bold rethinking of how
adaptation works across all media and genres that may put an end to the age-old
question of whether the book was better than the movie, or the opera, or the
theme park.
