Adaptation in Turkish Literature, Cinema and Media

This edited collection provides a comprehensive exploration of key trends and methodologies in adaptation within the Turkish context, examining how socio-political and economic conditions shape the interaction between texts, cultures, and media industries. With thirteen essays covering adaptation topics from the early 1940s to the present, the collection addresses a diverse range of subjects, including novel-to-film adaptations, film remakes, television series, documentary dramas, stage adaptations, comic books, and the music industry.

1. Introduction. - Adaptation in the East-West Bridge Seda Öz. -PART 1. -TRANSNATIONAL ADAPTATIONS. -2. Early Turkish Cinema: A Hi/story of Localization, Turkification, and Adaptation Sava Arslan. -3. The Domestic Transformations of Bram Stoker s Dracula in The Formative Years of the Turkish Republic Ceylan Kö ker-Bevington. -4. The Bard Sings in Turkish: Music Adaptations of Shakespeare s Sonnet 66 in Türkiye Murat Ö ütçü. -5. Appropriating, Modernizing, or Localizing? . - Adaptations of Pride and Prejudice on Turkish TV Defne Ersin-Tutan. -PART 2. -POPULAR CULTURE ADAPTATIONS. -6. Kara Murat, Dracula, and Ali Baba. -Adapting Turkish Historical Adventure Comics to the Big Screen Kaya Özkaracalar. -7. Literary Adaptation on Turkish Television: The Interplay of Commerciality, Nationality, and Culture in Adapting Canonical Texts M. Mert Örsler. -8. Cem Y lmaz, Telecinematic Genre Revival and Ideology of the Turkish Film Remakes Murat Akser. -PART 3. -CULTURE, THEORY, AND ADAPTATION. -9. From Text to Screen and Screen to Text. -Orhan Pamuk s Secret Face as a Fluid Text Taner Can. -10. Relational Geometries in Our Grand Despair (2011) and Jules et Jim (1962) Colleen Kennedy-Karpat. -11. Documentary Theatre as a Countermemory Practice on the Turkish Stage: Adaptation of History in Bilgesu Erenus s Ça r and Genco Erkal s Sivas 93 Özlem Özmen-Akdo an. -12. Navigating Intermedial Adaptation through Translation: Dear Shameless Death Dirmit Naciye Sa lam. -13. A Discussion on Ye ilçam' s Adaptive Strategies with Cem Kaya Taner Can and Seda Öz.