Adaptation of History

The late Laurence Raw (1959–2018) published in the field of film adaptations and performance and taught English at Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Defne Ersin Tutan teaches in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Baskent University in Ankara, Turkey.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      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 HISTORYPalimpsests of History in Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture(GÜLDEN 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 TUNÇ)      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, CHARLESHAMILTON and HAYLEY HASIK)      About the Contributors      Index

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