True Event Adaptation

Davinia Thornley is Senior Lecturer in Media, Film, and Communication at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the author of the monograph, Cinema, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and Criticism: Filming on an Uneven Field (2014).

• Part I.- 1. Introduction—Scripting Real Lives, Davinia Thornley.- 2. The Study of Historical Films as Adaptation: Some Critical Reflections, Patrick Cattrysse.- 3. Waiting for the Great Swell of ‘74: John Milius and Autobiographical Self-projection in Big Wednesday, Alfio Leotta.- 4. Making Robert Sarkies’ Film Out of the Blue: Adaptation & Indigenization in Aotearoa New Zealand, Davinia Thornley.- Part II.- 5. When the Truth becomes Too Hard to Tell: Jocylene Saab & Dunia (2005), Margaret McVeigh.- 6. Making It “Real”/“Reel”: Truth, Trauma, and American Exceptionalism in Zero Dark Thirty, Jennifer L. Gauthier.- 7. (The Facts before) The Fiction before the Facts: Suburra from Novel (to Trial) to Feature to TV Serial, Paolo Russo.- 8. Reaching Young Audiences through Research: Using the NABC Method to Create the Norwegian Web Teenage Drama SKAM/Shame, Eva N. Redvall.- Part III.- 9. An Adaptation of Life: Ethnographically-grounded Fiction as a Method of Inquiry into Personal Accounts of Traumatic Events, Ester T. Roura.- 10. Writing the Screenplay for the History Film: A Case Study Featuring the Historical Figure, C.Y. O’Connor, Nadia Meneghello.