100+ years of adaptations, or, Adaptation as the art form of democracy / Deborah Cartmell -- part 1 History and contexts: from image to sound. Literary adaptation in the silent era / Judith Buchanan ; Writing on the silent screen / Gregory Robinson ; Adaptation and modernism / Richard J. Hand ; Sound adaptation: Sam Taylor's The taming of the shrew / Deborah Cartmell -- part 2 Approaches. Adaptation and intertextuality, or, What isn't an adaptation, and what does it matter? / Thomas Leitch ; Film authorship and adaptation / Shelley Cobb ; The business of adaptation: reading the market / Simone Murray -- part 3. Genre: film, television. Adapting the X-Men: comic-book narratives in film franchises / Martin Zeller-Jacques ; The classic novel on British television / Richard Butt -- part 4. Authors and periods. Screened writers / Kamilla Elliott ; Murdering Othello / Douglas M. Lanier ; Hamlet's hauntographology: film philology, facsimiles, and textual faux-rensics / Richard Burt ; Shakespeare to Austen on screen / Lisa Hopkins ; Austen and Sterne: beyond heritage / Ariane Hudelet ; Neo-Victorian adaptations / Imelda Whelehan -- part 5. Beyond authors and canonical texts. Costume and adaptation / Pamela Church Gibson and Tamar Jeffers McDonald ; Music into movies: the film of the song / Ian Inglis ; Rambo on page and screen / Jeremy Strong -- part 6 Case studies: adaptable and unadaptable texts. Writing for the movies: writing and screening Atonement (2007) / Yvonne Griggs ; Foregrounding the media: Atonement (2007) as an adaptation / Christine Geraghty ; Paratextual adaptation: Heart of darkness as Hearts of darkness via Apocalypse now / Jamie Sherry ; Authorship, commerce, and Harry Potter / James Russell ; Adapting the unadaptable; the screenwriter's perspective / Diane Lake