From TV to Film How to Cite: Hill, L 2018 Mining the Box: Adaptation, Nostalgia and Generation X. Open Library of Humanities, 4(1): 1, pp. 1–28, DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.99 Published: 09 January 2018 Peer Review: This article has been peer reviewed through the double-blind process of Open Library of Humanities, which is a journal published by the Open Library of Humanities. Copyright: © 2017 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distri- bution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Open Access: Open Library of Humanities is a peer-reviewed open access journal. Digital Preservation: The Open Library of Humanities and all its journals are digitally preserved in the CLOCKSS scholarly archive service. Lisa Hill, ‘Mining the Box: Adaptation, Nostalgia and Generation X’, (2018) 4(1): 1 Open Library of Humanities, DOI: https:// doi.org/10.16995/olh.99 FROM TV TO FILM Mining the Box: Adaptation, Nostalgia and Generation X Lisa Hill University of the Sunshine Coast, AU
[email protected] This article identifies the television to film phenomenon by cataloguing contemporary films adapted from popular television shows of the 1960s and 1970s. This trend is located within the context of Generation X and considered within the framework of nostalgia and Linda Hutcheon’s (2006) conception of adaptation. The history of re-visiting existing texts in screen culture is explored, and the distinction between remakes and adaptation is determined.