The Making of... Adaptation and the Cultural Imaginary

• Main Author: Cronin, Jan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
• Subjects: Motion pictures.; Documentary films.; Adaptation Studies.; Documentary.

This book explores "Making of" sites as a genre of cultural artefact. Moving beyond "making-of" documentaries, the book analyses novels, drama, film, museum exhibitions and popular studies that re-present the making of culturally loaded film adaptations. It argues that the "...

Table of Contents:

• 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".