The Adaptation of History
Essays on Ways of Telling the Past
Will be published approx. on 26. November 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
244 pages
978-0-7864-7254-3 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays asks the question "What is history?" and considers how history is shaped in different socioeconomic contexts. The writers take a transdisciplinary approach, in the belief that everyone who deals with history--including professional historians, novelists, and poets--constructs narratives of the past to make sense of the present as well as to determine their future courses of action. With contributions from a variety of specialists in media studies, literature, history and anthropology, this book breaks new ground in adaptation studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
Adult education
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
notes, bibliographies, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
402 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-7254-3 (9780786472543)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
The late Laurence Raw (1959-2018) published in the field of film adaptations and performance and taught English at Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey. Defne Ersin Tutan teaches in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Baskent University in Ankara, Turkey.
Content
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Adapting Cinema + History (= Cinematic History?)
(JAMES M. WELSH)
Introduction: What Does "Adapting" History Involve?
(DEFNE ERSIN TUTAN AND LAURENCE RAW)
PART ONE: MAINSTREAM HISTORY
"Glorifying the American Girl": Adapting an Icon
(CYNTHIA J. MILLER)
Adapting Dachau: Intertexuality and Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island
(WALTER C. METZ)
The GDR Founding Myth: Adapted History in Children's and Young Adults' Fiction of Post- War Germany and the
(ANNE KLAUS)
Kneehigh Theatre's Brief Encounter: "Live on Stage-Not the Film"
(CLAUDIA GEORGI)
The Worst of Youth: Mario Martone's Noi Credevamo as a Contested Historical Adaptation
(MARCO GROSOLI)
Cinematic Reinventions of the 1825 Decembrist Uprising in Post- Revolutionary Soviet Russia
(DUNJA DOGO)
"The Physicists Have Known Sin": Hollywood's Depictions of the Manhattan Project, 1945-1995
(A. BOWDOIN VAN RIPER)
Adapting History and the History of Adaptation
(CLARE FOSTER)
The Crisis of Adapting History in Zimbabwe
(SABELO J. NDLOVU- GATSHENI)
Adapting Archaeological Landscapes: Re- Presenting Ireland's Heritage
(MANJREE KHAJANCHI)
PART TWO: ALTERNATIVE HISTORY
Palimpsests of History in Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture
(GUELDEN HATIPOG?LU)
Interpreting the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese American Perspective
(YUKI OBAYASHI)
Re- Inscribing Sovereignty: History, Adaptation, and Medicine in the Poetry of Deborah Miranda
(ROSE GUBELE)
Recuperating, Re- Membering and Resurrecting the Old South: Historical Adaptation in Caroline Gordon's Penhally and None Shall Look Back
(TANFER EMIN TUNC)
Looking Beyond the Moving Moments: Adaptation, Digitization and Amateur Film Footage as Visual Histories
(HEATHER NORRIS NICHOLSON)
Recasting the Past in the Personal Present: History, Film, and Adaptation
(GERALD DUCHOVNAY, ERIC GRUVER, CHARLES
HAMILTON and HAYLEY HASIK)
About the Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Adapting Cinema + History (= Cinematic History?)
(JAMES M. WELSH)
Introduction: What Does "Adapting" History Involve?
(DEFNE ERSIN TUTAN AND LAURENCE RAW)
PART ONE: MAINSTREAM HISTORY
"Glorifying the American Girl": Adapting an Icon
(CYNTHIA J. MILLER)
Adapting Dachau: Intertexuality and Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island
(WALTER C. METZ)
The GDR Founding Myth: Adapted History in Children's and Young Adults' Fiction of Post- War Germany and the
(ANNE KLAUS)
Kneehigh Theatre's Brief Encounter: "Live on Stage-Not the Film"
(CLAUDIA GEORGI)
The Worst of Youth: Mario Martone's Noi Credevamo as a Contested Historical Adaptation
(MARCO GROSOLI)
Cinematic Reinventions of the 1825 Decembrist Uprising in Post- Revolutionary Soviet Russia
(DUNJA DOGO)
"The Physicists Have Known Sin": Hollywood's Depictions of the Manhattan Project, 1945-1995
(A. BOWDOIN VAN RIPER)
Adapting History and the History of Adaptation
(CLARE FOSTER)
The Crisis of Adapting History in Zimbabwe
(SABELO J. NDLOVU- GATSHENI)
Adapting Archaeological Landscapes: Re- Presenting Ireland's Heritage
(MANJREE KHAJANCHI)
PART TWO: ALTERNATIVE HISTORY
Palimpsests of History in Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture
(GUELDEN HATIPOG?LU)
Interpreting the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese American Perspective
(YUKI OBAYASHI)
Re- Inscribing Sovereignty: History, Adaptation, and Medicine in the Poetry of Deborah Miranda
(ROSE GUBELE)
Recuperating, Re- Membering and Resurrecting the Old South: Historical Adaptation in Caroline Gordon's Penhally and None Shall Look Back
(TANFER EMIN TUNC)
Looking Beyond the Moving Moments: Adaptation, Digitization and Amateur Film Footage as Visual Histories
(HEATHER NORRIS NICHOLSON)
Recasting the Past in the Personal Present: History, Film, and Adaptation
(GERALD DUCHOVNAY, ERIC GRUVER, CHARLES
HAMILTON and HAYLEY HASIK)
About the Contributors
Index