Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; Works Cited; Chapter 2 Penny Dreadful: The Neo-Victorian 'Made-for-TV' Series; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Establishing a Generic Framework; 2.2.1 From Period Costume Drama to Neo-Victorian TV Series; 2.2.2 Neo-Victorian Gothic Meets TV Horror; 2.3 Logan as Textual Cartographer; 2.4 The Paratextual Context of the Penny Dreadful Universe; Works Cited; Chapter 3 Fargo: To Be Continued ... ; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 From Fargo to Fargo: Redefining the Relationship; 3.3 Textual Continuities; 3.3.1 Mythical Continuities
3.3.2 Cultural and Geographical Continuities3.4 Stylistic Continuities and Detours; Works Cited; Chapter 4 Orange Is the New Black as 'Living Text': From Memoir to TV Series; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 'Every Sentence Is a Story': The TV Rewrite; 4.3 Dipping into the Gene Pool; 4.3.1 The Women in Prison Genre as Comedy; 4.3.2 The Women in Prison Genre as 'Realist' Melodrama; 4.3.3 Cellblock Sisters: The Sexual Politics of Orange Is the New Black; 4.4 Beyond 'Story': Orange Is the New Black and the Paratextual Context; 4.5 Memoir as 'Living Text'; Works Cited
Chapter 5 The Night Of: A Remake 'Original'5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Remake and Its Production Context; 5.3 Televisual Quests for 'Authorial Authenticity'; 5.4 Recalibrating the Text; 5.5 The Night Of: A Generic 'Makeover'; Works Cited; Afterword: One More 'Turn' ... ; Works Cited; Index
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"This book focuses on the significantly under-explored relationship between televisual culture and adaptation studies in what is now commonly regarded as the 'Golden Age' of contemporary TV drama. Adaptable TV: Rewiring the Text does not simply concentrate on traditional types of adaptation, such as reboots, remakes and sequels, but broadens the scope of enquiry to examine a diverse range of experimental adaptive types that are emerging within an ever-changing TV landscape. With a particular focus on the serial narrative form, and with case studies that include Penny Dreadful, Fargo, The Night Of and Orange is the New Black, this study is essential reading for anyone who is interested in the complex interplay between television studies and adaptation studies"--Back cover.