True Event Adaptation Scripting Real Lives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Thornley, Davinia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
• Subjects: Motion pictures.; Film genres.; Historiography.; Adaptation Studies.; Genre.; Memory Studies.

These essays all-in various ways-address the relationship between adaptation, "true events," and cultural memory. They ask (and frequently answer) the question: how do we script stories about real events that are often still fresh in our memories and may involve living people? True Event A...

Table of Contents:

• 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.