Download or read book Adaptation, Authorship, and Contemporary Women Filmmakers written by S. Cobb and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively discussion of costume dramas to women's films, Shelley Cobb investigates the practice of adaptation in contemporary films made by women. The figure of the woman author comes to the fore as a key site for the representation of women's agency and the authority of the woman filmmaker.