True Event Adaptation Scripting Real Lives [Hardcover]

These essays allin various waysaddress 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 eventsaddressing 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 books contributors themselves.Part I.- 1. IntroductionScripting 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 lß