Making of… Adaptation and the Cultural Imaginary

Jan Cronin is a Senior Lecturer in English in the School of Humanities at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She specializes in Irish Studies, New Zealand literature and Adaptation Studies.

• 1.Introduction: “The Making of…,” Adaptation and the (Trans-)Cultural Imaginary.- 2.Adapting The Quiet Man.- 3.Making and Memorializing The Quiet Man in Ireland.- 4.The “Making of” The Quiet Man: Popular Studies and Documentaries.- 5. “Taking Liberties with Reality”: “Fiction” and the “Making of” The Quiet Man.- 6. The “Making of” Palimpsestuous Adaptation in José Luis Guerín’s Innisfree.- 7. The “Making of” Artistic and Cultural Adaptation in Roddy Doyle’s The Dead Republic.- 8. Adapting Gone with the Wind.- 9. The “Making of” Gone with the Wind: Popular Studies and Documentaries.- 10. “Time-machine[s]”: Dramatizing the “Making of” Gone with the Wind.- 11. Exhibiting the “Making of” Gone with the Wind.- 12. Conclusion: The “Making of” “Middle-earth Aotearoa”