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Where is Adaptation?: Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts
Edited by Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 9] 2018
► pp. 71–86

Chapter 4
Adaptation as city branding

The case of Dexter and Miami

Article outline
  • Toward a genealogy of crime series set in Miami
  • The color schemes
  • Iconic images
  • Signature soundtrack
  • Transforming Darkly Dreaming Dexter
  • Locating Dexter
  • “Dahmer Land”
  • Branding as adaptation
  • References
Published online: 16 October 2018
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