Adaptation is an international, peer-reviewed journal, offering academic articles, film and book reviews, including both book to screen adaptation, screen to book adaptation, popular and ‘classic’ adaptations, theatre and novel screen adaptations, television, animation, soundtracks, production issues and genres in literature on screen.
Adaptation provides an international forum to theorise and interrogate the phenomenon of literature on screen from both a literary and film studies perspective.
For further information please consult the Oxford Journals site.
The new journal, Adaptation, and the new Association of Adaptation Studies, is a most welcome development in an area that has been for so long under-represented in academic circles. As a practitioner, I find it rather thrilling to be the object of scholarly investigation!”
– Andrew Davies – Screenwriter and novelist.
The Adaptation Essay Prize
The Adaptation Essay Prize is a new innovation from the Journal, launched in 2011 to encourage the best new scholarship in the field. While the journal publishes many articles that focus on the relationship between literature and film, the Editors are particularly keen to publish work which challenges the primacy of that relationship: this might include essays on computer games, opera, popular music, animation, genre fiction or work with a wider theoretical sweep. The Essay Prize is open to anyone currently registered for either an undergraduate or postgraduate degree on any subject within adaptation studies.
Visit this page to submit your essay and to see a list of previous prize winners.
ACCESSING Adaptation with your AAS Membership
You can choose an Association of Adaptation Studies (AAS) membership plan that includes a digital subscription to Adaptation. You can activate your digital journal subscription through the Oxford Academic Journals website. If you have not received a subscriber number, you can contact Oxford’s journal customer service to request one.