Chapter 1 Introduction: Scripting Real Lives

Chapter 2 The Study of Historical Films as Adaptation: Some Critical Reflections

Chapter 3 Waiting for the Great Swell of ‘74: John Milius and Autobiographical Self-Projection in Big Wednesday

Chapter 4 Making Robert Sarkies’ Film Out of the Blue : Adaptation and Indigenization in Aotearoa New Zealand

Chapter 5 When the Truth Becomes Too Hard to Tell: Jocelyne Saab & Dunia (2005)

Chapter 6 Making It “Real”/“Reel”: Truth, Trauma, and American Exceptionalism in Zero Dark Thirty

Chapter 7 (The Facts Before) The Fiction Before the Facts: Suburra from Novel (to Trial) to Feature to TV Serial

Chapter 8 Reaching Young Audiences Through Research: Using the NABC Method to Create the Norwegian Web Teenage Drama SKAM/Shame

Chapter 9 An Adaptation of Life: Ethnographically Grounded Fiction as a Method of Inquiry into Personal Accounts of Traumatic Events