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From Book to Screen Entertainment: How Class Issues in Alki Zei's Novel Wildcat Under Glass Are Adapted for Greek Television
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
Uppsala University, Sweden.
2024 (English)In: Class, Culture, and the Media in Greece, Volume 2: Neoliberalism(s), the Mainstream, Counter-cultures / [ed] Yiannis Mylonas; Elena Psyllakou, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, p. 185-206Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

While there is knowledge about the presence of political themes in Alki Zei’s (1925–2020) children’s and youth literature, there is scant research on how class issues are represented in her work and how they are adapted to other media forms. This chapter, using a case study design and a social-semiotic-inspired text analysis, offers a closer look at the Greek produced television-series adaptation of Wildcat under Glass (ERT, 1990), which was mostly recently broadcast in Greece in 2012 and is now available on the online streaming platform ERT Flix. Drawing on a materialist and “culturalist” understanding of class as well as on the concept of comparative criticism, they focus, in particular, on how class issues are represented and (re)adapted to television, the entertainment genre, and a wider audience. Contrary to initial assumptions, the authors show that class issues remain, in principle, unaltered and discuss a number of possible explanations.

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Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. p. 185-206
Keywords [en]
Alki Zei, Greece, Class, Media, Adaptation, Television Series
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Media and Communication Studies
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Media and Communication Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-101669DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-55159-8Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105004499221ISBN: 978-3-031-55158-1 (print)ISBN: 978-3-031-55159-8 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-101669DiVA, id: diva2:1900113
Available from: 2024-09-23 Created: 2024-09-23 Last updated: 2025-06-06Bibliographically approved

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