Adapting Endings from Book to Screen : Last Pages, Last Shots (Paperback)

Preface: Opening Remarks: ‘There’s a long goodbye, and it happens everyday’ Introduction: On Adapting Endings Part I: Creating an Ending: an Adaptor’s Approach to Closure Chapter One: Structuring story: beginnings and endings An interview with Michael Eaton Chapter Two: The Head and the Crown: Ending Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King Chapter Three: "Is the Past Really a Foreign Country? The Different Endings of The Go-Between. Part II: The Politics of Endings Chapter Four: Adapting and Subverting Richard Slotkin’s Regeneration Through Violence: the ending of Deliverance (James Dickey, 1970, John Boorman, 1972) Chapter Five: Lee Daniels’ The Butler: From the Headlines to the Front Line Part III: Adapting to the small screen: Endings and television’s "endless present" Chapter Six: Serial Adaptation: An Endless Series of Endings? The Strange Case of Jekyll (BBC One, 2007), or, The Last Page and Its Doubles Chapter Seven: The Ourobouros of Television Prequels: Endings and Beginnings in Hannibal (NBC, 2013-2015)　Chapter Eight: How to End with an Opening: TV Series Continuity and Metadaptation Part IV: Questioning Endings: The Impossibility of Closure? Chapter Nine: Alter egos and alternative endings in The Scapegoat (Daphne du Maurier’s novel, Robert Hamer’s and Charles Sturridge’s adaptations) Chapter Ten: Adapting Unsettling Endings and Harlequinization: Neil LaBute’s Possession and Joe Wright’s Atonement Conclusion: After the ending ? Closure in Post-Apocalyptic Narratives as Fictions of Uncertainty