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"This collection of essays asks the question ""What is history?"" and considers how history is shaped in different socioeconomic contexts. The writers take a transdisciplinary approach, in the belief that everyone who deals with history--including professional historians, novelists, and poets--constructs narratives of the past to make sense of the present as well as to determine their future courses of action. With contributions from a variety of specialists in media studies, literature, history and anthropology, this book breaks new ground in adaptation studies."

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Author:   Laurence Raw ,  Defne Ersin Tutan
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9780786472543

ISBN 10:   0786472545
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   26 November 2012
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Adult education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Foreword: Adapting Cinema + History (= Cinematic History?) (JAMES M. WELSH)      Introduction: What Does “Adapting” History Involve? (DEFNE ERSIN TUTAN AND LAURENCE RAW)      PART ONE: 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 (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)      PART TWO: ALTERNATIVE HISTORY Palimpsests of History in Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture (GÜLDEN HATIPOG˘LU)      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 TUNÇ)      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)      About the Contributors      Index     

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excellent --Destructive Music.

excellent --<i>Destructive Music</i>.

Author Information

The late Laurence Raw (1959–2018) published in the field of film adaptations and performance and taught English at Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Defne Ersin Tutan teaches in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Baskent University in Ankara, Turkey.

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