The Scandal of Adaptation

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Succès de Scandale : From Adultery to Adulteration

Chapter 3 Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street (1945): Designing for Scandal

Chapter 4 Sweet Smell of Success : Noiradaptation “in This Crudest of All Possible Worlds”

Chapter 6 “We Need More Input!”: John Hughes’s Weird Science (1985) and Scandals from the Red Scare to the Twitter Mob

Chapter 7 Adaptation and Scandal in The Goldfinch

Chapter 8 Scandalous Dystopias: Hyping The Last of Us Part II and Cyberpunk 2077 During the Pandemic

Chapter 9 Bowdlerizing for Dollars, or Adaptation as Political Containment

Chapter 10 (Re-)Writing the Pain: War, Exploitation, and the Ethics of Adapting Nonfiction

Chapter 11 Adaptation and Censorship

Chapter 12 Cinematic Contagion: Bereullin ( The Berlin File, 2013)

Chapter 13 Periphery and Process: Tracing Adaptation Through Screenplays

Chapter 14 The Narcissistic Scandal of Adapting History