Cobb, Shelley

Adaptation, authorship, and contemporary women filmmakers / Shelley Cobb. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. - vi, 167 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-161) and index.

Introduction: agency, adaptation and authorship -- Envisioning Judith Shakespeare: collaboration and the woman author -- Adapt or die: the dangers of women's authorship -- Authorizing the mother: Sisterhoods in America -- Postfeminist Austen: by women, for women, about women -- Conclusion: The secret life of bees and authorial subversion.

978-0-230-28384-8


Film adaptations--History and criticism
Literature--Women authors--History and criticism
Women motion picture producers and directors.
Motion pictures and literature