True event adaptation : scripting real lives /: scripting real lives. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editor, Davinia Thornley.
• Editors: Thornley, Davinia
• Contents: Intro; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Part I Scripting Real Lives in the Past; Chapter 1 Introduction: Scripting Real Lives; Chapter 2 The Study of Historical Films as Adaptation: Some Critical Reflections; Introduction; Historical Film Studies: A Brief Introduction; The Adaptation as End-Product; Adaptation as a Process; Selection Policy; Adaptation Policy; Systemic Relations Between Process and End-Product; Conclusions; References; Chapter 3 Waiting for the Great Swell of '74: John Milius and Autobiographical Self-Projection in Big Wednesday; Works Cited Chapter 4 Making Robert Sarkies' Film Out of the Blue: Adaptation and Indigenization in Aotearoa New ZealandIntroduction; Part I; Part II; Part III; Part IV; Bibliography; Part II Scripting Real Lives in the Present; Chapter 5 When the Truth Becomes Too Hard to Tell: Jocelyne Saab & Dunia (2005); Introduction; The Creative Treatment of Reality and the Truth; Screenwriting and Finding the Truth; When the Truth Becomes Too Hard to Tell-Jocelyne Saab; Feature Film: Truth and the Real The Quest for Freedom of Expression Through Sufi Poetry and Learning and The Quest for Love via Traditional Marriage or True PartnershipThe Quest for Freedom of Expression/Self-Identity Through Dance; The Pathways of Tradition as Reflected by the Roles of Women in Her Life; Conclusion-Truth and Reality: Plot, Poetics, and Passion in Storytelling by and About Women; References; Chapter 6 Making It "Real"/"Reel": Truth, Trauma, and American Exceptionalism in Zero Dark Thirty; "Truth"; Prosthetic Memory; Representing Trauma; Genre; The Female War Hero and American Exceptionalism; Works Cited Chapter 7 (The Facts Before) The Fiction Before the Facts: Suburra from Novel (to Trial) to Feature to TV SerialItalian and International Critical Reception; Mafia Capitale: The Facts and the Fictions; The Screen Adaptations of Facts and Fiction; Facts vs. Fiction, or Historicity vs. Moral Realism: For a Pragmatic of Truth in Suburra; Works Cited; Chapter 8 Reaching Young Audiences Through Research: Using the NABC Method to Create the Norwegian Web Teenage Drama SKAM/Shame; Research and Development in Television Drama Production Need, Approach, Benefits and Competition [NABC] in Television Drama ProductionResearching the Needs of the Intended Audience for SKAM; From Needs to Approach: Building Characters Based on Audience Needs; Creating a Community-And Listening to Community Feedback; The NABC Method as a Useful Research Tool-Not a Recipe for Success; References; Part III Scripting Real Lives for the Future; Chapter 9 An Adaptation of Life: Ethnographically Grounded Fiction as a Method of Inquiry into Personal Accounts of Traumatic Events; Introduction; Strategies for (Representing) Life
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.436; Film adaptations; Current events; PERFORMING ARTS / Reference; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- General; History -- Historiography; Film: styles & genres; Historiography; Motion pictures; Film genres; Historiography; Film, TV & radio; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319973227; 3319973223
• Related ISBNs: 9783319973210
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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