Writing Instructor Publishes Book on Cinema and Literature Theory

About the Book (via Bloomsbury Publishing):

The Drift: Affect, Adaptation, and New Perspectives on Fidelity offers a new perspective on the complex interrelations between literature and cinema. It does so by articulating an ‘affective turn’ for adaptation studies, a field whose traditional focus has been the critical castigation of film adaptations of canonical plays or novels. Drawing on theorists such as Gilles Deleuze, Brian Massumi, and Marco Abel,the author is able to re-conceive literary and cinematic works as textual engines generating and circulating affect, and the adaptive process as a drifting of those affective intensities from one medium to another. 

Rachel Barraclough of the University of Lincoln, UK writes, “This book lays the groundwork for an essential radicalizing and broadening of the field of adaptation studies, presenting new ways of thinking about and analyzing the relationship between films and literary texts.” 

John Hodgkins received his M.A. in Cinema Studies from New York University and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Rhode Island, and he is particularly interested in the intertextual relationship between film and literature.  His articles have appeared in such publications as College Literature, Adaptation, Film and History, Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Screening the Past, among others.  

For more information on Professor Hodgkin’s writing and for additional reviews, click here. 

Congratulations, John!

Published: June 24, 2015