Adaptation, Authorship, and Contemporary Women Filmmakers

S. Cobb

nov 2014 · Springer

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A lively discussion of costume dramas to women's films, Shelley Cobb investigates the practice of adaptation in contemporary films made by women. The figure of the woman author comes to the fore as a key site for the representation of women's agency and the authority of the woman filmmaker.

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Shelley Cobb is Associate Professor in Film and English at the University of Southampton, UK. She has published widely in the areas of women filmmakers, adaptation and celebrity studies, and is the co-editor, with Neil Ewen, of First Comes Love: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship, and Cultural Politics (2015).