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A Theory of Adaptation
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Copyright
- © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com
- ISSN
- 1755-0637
- eISSN
- 1755-0645
- DOI
- 10.1093/adaptation/apv030
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
AbstractThis essay examines how two of Orson Welles’s radio plays, ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’, blur the lines between radio’s commercial and artistic functions in order to deconstruct Welles’s radio celebrity and, by extension, media celebrity in general. These two adaptations of novels for Welles’s Campbell Playhouse series (1938–40) mix fact and fiction by inserting the plays’ fictional characters into the broadcasts’ commercial segments and also incorporating elements of the advertisements into the plays. The plays’ characters are equated to product spokespeople, blurring the boundaries between art and commerce. As a result, media-generated celebrity personae, such as Welles’s own, are exposed as commercially driven fictions. Both broadcasts were written by Herman Mankiewicz, Welles’s co-writer on Citizen Kane. By applying extended close readings to the rarely studied radio collaborations of Welles and Mankiewicz, this essay argues ultimately that the plays’ scrutiny of media celebrity prefigures similar thematic concerns in Citizen Kane.
Journal
Adaptation – Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 1, 2016