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Dear colleagues, We’re very pleased to announce the publication of the new collection Adapting Endings: Last Pages, Last Shots. Please find attached the table of contents: Happy reading! Best, Shannon Wells-Lassagne Adapting Endings from Book to Screen: Last Pages, Last Shots Edited by Armelle Parey and Shannon Wells-Lassagne Contents Notes on contributors Preface: opening remarks: ‘there’s a long goodbye, and it happens everyday’, Anca Cristofovici Introduction: on adapting endings, Armelle Parey and Shannon Wells-Lassagne Part I Creating an ending: an adaptor’s approach to closure 1 Structuring story: beginnings and endings: An interview with Michael Eaton 2 The head and the crown: ending Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King, Jonathan C. Glance 3 Is the past really a foreign country? [MOU2] The different endings of The Go-Between, Isabelle Roblin Part II The politics of endings 4 Adapting and subverting Richard Slotkin’s Regeneration Through Violence: the ending of Deliverance (James Dickey, 1970; John Boorman, 1972), Elizabeth Mullen 5 Lee Daniels’ The Butler[O3] : from the headlines to the front line, Hélène Charlery Part III Adapting to the small screen: endings and television’s “endless present” 6 Serial adaptation: an endless series of endings? The strange case of Jekyll (BBC One, 2007), or, the last page and its doubles, Sébastien Lefait 7 The ouroboros of television prequels: endings and beginnings in Hannibal (NBC, 2013–2015), Shannon Wells-Lassagne 8 How to end with an opening: TV series continuity and metadaptation, Charles Joseph and Delphine Letort Part IV Questioning endings: the impossibility of closure? 9 Alter egos and alternative endings in The Scapegoat: Daphne du Maurier’s novel, Robert Hamer’s and Charles Sturridge’s adaptations, Nicole Cloarec 10 Adapting unsettling endings and harlequinization: Neil LaBute’s Possession and Joe Wright’s Atonement, Armelle Parey 11 After the ending – closure in post-apocalyptic narratives as fictions of uncertainty, Eckart Voigts -------------------------------------------------- Shannon Wells-Lassagne Professor, Film and Television Chair of the English Department Associate Director Research group TIL Université de Burgundy (Dijon, France) E-mail: [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------