Bakhtin in cinema and adaptation studies. Part II. Adaptation studies: back to Bakhtin again

It is not surprising that the study of Films that are adaptation of literary works has attracted both specialists of Cinema and Literature for a long time. In the last twenty years this topic has developed into a whole academic discipline of its own, especially in the Anglophone world, with a growing bibliography, magazines, manuals, anthologies. One of the thinkers most quoted and used in this growing field is Mikhail Bakhtin. We will sketch here the reasons for this central role, offer a bibliography of research based on his work and examine some of the main contributions to this bibliography and suggest why we think Bakhtinian contributions to the field were the beginning.