Making of... Adaptation and the Cultural Imaginary

This book explores "e;Making of"e; sites as a genre of cultural artefact. Moving beyond "e;making-of"e; documentaries, the book analyses novels, drama, film, museum exhibitions and popular studies that re-present the making of culturally loaded film adaptations. It argues that the "e;Making of"e; genre operates on an adaptive spectrum, orienting towards and enacting the adaptation of films and their making. The book examines the behaviours that characterise "e;Making of"e; sites across visual media; it explores the cultural work done by these sites, why recognition of "e;Making of"e; sites as adaptations matters, and why our conception of adaptation matters. Part one focuses on the adaptive domain presented by the "e;Making of"e; John Ford's The Quiet Man. Part two attends to "e;Making of"e; Gone with the Wind sites, and concludes with "e;Making of"e; The Lord of the Rings texts as the acme of the cultural risks and investments charted in earlier chapters.