The Scandal of Adaptation

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction
	References
Succès de Scandale: From Adultery to Adulteration
	Tolstoi’s Anna
	The Silver Screen’s Anna
	Anna Treading the Boards
	Multimedia’s Anna
	References
Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street (1945): Designing for Scandal
	References
Sweet Smell of Success: Noiradaptation “in This Crudest of All Possible Worlds”
	Adapting Winchell
	Lehman, Lancaster, and Mackendrick as Adaptors
	The Noir Adaptation of Sweet Smell and Adaptation as Noir
	References
On Incest and Adaptation: The Foundational Scandal of Cecilia Valdés
	Scandalous Romance
	Cecilia (1982): The Revolutionary Economics of Love and Race in Cuba
	The Graveyard of the Angels (1987): The Scandal of Excess
	The Little Bronze Virgin (2004): Hideous Progeny Hidden No More
	Adapting the Future from the Bones of the Past
	References
“We Need More Input!”: John Hughes’s Weird Science (1985) and Scandals from the Red Scare to the Twitter Mob
	Scandal as Adaptation and the Making of BuzzFeed Theory
	Weird Science and Resistant Adaptation
	References
Adaptation and Scandal in The Goldfinch
	Trompe l’oeil or Still-Life: Fabritius’s The Goldfinch (1654)
	Nature Morte and Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch (2013)
	“The Record of an Enthusiasm”: Adapting The Goldfinch to Film
	What Is It? Critical Responses to The Goldfinch(es)
	“The Thing and Yet Not the Thing”: (Not-So-) Scandalous Adaptation
	References
Scandalous Dystopias: Hyping The Last of Us Part II and Cyberpunk 2077 During the Pandemic
	Prestige TV, Plot Spoilers, and Pandemics in The Last of Us Part II
	Corporate Capitalists and Movie Stars in the Digital Dystopias of Cyberpunk 2077
	Conclusion
	References
Bowdlerizing for Dollars, or Adaptation as Political Containment
	The Scandal of Bowdlerization: Subsisting on the Body of an Unfortunate Victim
	The Scandal of Under-Reading: You Can’t Stay Neutral on a Moving Train
	Averting Scandal: Bowdlerization and the Business of Politics
	References
(Re-)Writing the Pain: War, Exploitation, and the Ethics of Adapting Nonfiction
	Introduction: Scandal, War, and Adaptation
	Scandal and the Ethics of Nonfiction
	A Readerly Ethics of Adaptation
	Adaptation and the Scandal of Genre
	Conclusion: The Anxiety of Adaptation Studies
	References
Adaptation and Censorship
	References
Cinematic Contagion: Bereullin (The Berlin File, 2013)
	References
Periphery and Process: Tracing Adaptation Through Screenplays
	Double Indemnity
	The Man Who Would Be King
	Conclusions
	References
The Narcissistic Scandal of Adapting History
	“That to Which We Return”
	Sic Semper
	“Fancy … Misjoining Shapes, Wild Work Produces Oft”
	References
Index