1. Introduction: Definitions
2. New and Old Approaches to Adaptation
3. New modes of authorship, production, marketing, and consumption
4. “Metadaptation”
5. Questions of Genre and Marketability
6. Form, Style and Cinematic Space
7. Comic to Film Adaptations; Main Challenges;
8. Cultural, Social, Historical Adaptations
9. Cross Cultural Borrowings and Implications
Intercultural Theatre Colonialism and Commodification
10. Televisual Adaptations
11. Television Programs Adapted into Films
12. Questions of Reception and Authority
13. Europe and Hollywood;Race and Globalization
14. Questions of Gender and Sexuality
15. Group Evaluation Task
16. Recap of the Course