These essays all-in various ways-address the relationship between adaptation true events and
cultural memory. They ask (and frequently answer) the question: how do we script stories about
real events that are often still fresh in our memories and may involve living people? True
Event Adaptation: Scripting Real Lives contains essays from scholars committed to interrogating
historical and current hard-hitting events traumas and truths through various media. Each
essay goes beyond general discussion of adaptation and media to engage with the specifics of
adapting true life events-addressing pertinent and controversial questions around scriptwriting
representation ethics memory forms of history and methodological interventions. Written for
readers interested in how memory works on culture as well as screenwriting choices the
collection offers new perspectives on historical media and commercial media that is currently
being produced as well as on media created by the book's contributors themselves.
