Cutchins (English, Brigham Young University) gathers academics in theater studies, media studies, and English to demonstrate benefits and new approaches to teaching literature adaptation, in
this resource for teachers of high school and university courses. The essays focus on what the idea of adaptation means in different sociopolitical contexts. Of special interest is a chapter on
a group writing project adapting Brokeback Mountain using e-mail and mobile phone text message exchanges between the characters, contributed anonymously by students in the class. Some other
ideas explored include teaching English texts to students from another culture, teaching radio drama adaptations, stage-to film adaptation, adapting Wilde for the performance classroom,
e-adapting Blake in the classroom. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
