The adaptation of history : essays on ways of telling the past / edited by Laurence Raw and Defne Ersin Tutan ; forewordist, James M. Welsh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raw, Laurence, editor.

Tutan, Defne Ersin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical films--History and criticism.

Historical films.

Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Film adaptations.

History in motion pictures.

Motion pictures and history.

Physical Description:

viii, 233 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]

Summary:

"This collection of essays looks at the question "What is history?" and how history is shaped in different socioeconomic contexts. The writers take a transdisciplinary approach, in the belief that everyone who deals with history constructs narratives of the past to make sense of the present as well as to determine their future courses of action"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: What Does "Adapting" History Involve? / Defne Ersin Tutan and Laurence Raw

Mainstream History. "Glorifying the American Girl": Adapting an Icon / Cynthia J. Miller

Adapting Dachau: Intertexuality and Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island / Walter C. Metz

The GDR Founding Myth: Adapted History in Children's and Young Adults' Fiction of Post-War Germany and the GDR / Anne Klaus

Kneehigh Theatre's Brief Encounter: "Live on Stage-Not the Film" / Claudia Georgi

The Worst of Youth: Mario Martone's Noi Credevamo as a Contested Historical Adaptation / Marco Grosoli

Cinematic Reinventions of the 1825 Decembrist Uprising in Post-Revolutionary Soviet Russia / Dunja Dogo

"The Physicists Have Known Sin": Hollywood's Depictions of the Manhattan Project, 1945-1995 / A. Bowdoin Van Riper

Adapting History and the History of Adaptation / Clare Foster

The Crisis of Adapting History in Zimbabwe / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Adapting Archaeological Landscapes: Re-Presenting Ireland's Heritage / Manjree Khajanchi

Alternative History. Palimpsests of History in Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture / Golden Hatipoglu

Interpreting the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese American Perspective / Yuki Obayashi

Re-Inscribing Sovereignty: History, Adaptation, and Medicine in the Poetry of Deborah Miranda / Rose Gubele

Recuperating, Re-Membering and Resurrecting the Old South: Historical Adaptation in Caroline Gordon's Penhally and None Shall Look Back / Tanfer Emin Tunì

Looking Beyond the Moving Moments: Adaptation, Digitization and Amateur Film Footage as Visual Histories / Heather Norris Nicholson

Recasting the Past in the Personal Present: History, Film and Adaptation / Gerald Duchovnay, Eric Gruver, Charles Hamilton and Hayley Hasik.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786472543

0786472545

OCLC:

816654605