[Commlist] New book: "True Event Adaptation: Scripting Real Lives,"

New book announcement:

*/TRUE EVENT ADAPTATION: SCRIPTING REAL LIVES /*

edited by Davinia Thornley (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319973210#aboutBook 
<https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319973210#reviews>


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 Adaptation: Scripting Real Lives/ contains essays from 
scholars committed to interrogating historical and current hard-hitting 
events, traumas, and truths through various media. Each essay goes 
beyond general discussion of adaptation and media to engage with the 
specifics of adapting true life events—addressing pertinent and 
controversial questions around scriptwriting, representation, ethics, 
memory, forms of history, and methodological interventions. Written for 
readers interested in how memory works on culture as well as 
screenwriting choices, the collection offers new perspectives on 
historical media and commercial media that is currently being produced, 
as well as on media created by the book’s contributors themselves.


*REVIEW
*


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“Why should fictional adaptations get all the headlines? Davinia 
Thornley’s contributors revisit a set of ten real-life subjects and 
situations, from female circumcision in Egypt to the 2015 terrorist 
attacks in Paris, examining their adaptation in films from /The Quiet 
American /to /Zero Dark Thirty. /These essays complicate and challenge 
traditional binaries between genre and realism, creating and 
interpreting, fictional and nonfictional films. Individually and 
collectively, they make a persuasive case for the importance of 
adaptation, and the power of adaptation studies, in helping us make 
sense of contemporary reality.”

Thomas Leitch, University of Delaware, USA


*CONTENTS*

 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
 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 Novrup Redvall


 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

    ***ABOUT THE EDITOR*


    *Davinia Thornley* is Senior Lecturer in Media, Film, and
    Communication at the University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand. She
    led the 2017 Screenwriting Research Network international
    conference, from which the majority of these essays are drawn, and
    is the author of /Cinema, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and
    Criticism: Filming on an Uneven Field/ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
    Her current research centers on representations of the childfree
    choice in various academic disciplines.


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