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 Savas Arslan.-3. The Domestic Transformations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula in The Formative Years of the Turkish Republic Ceylan Kösker-Bevington .-4. The Bard Sings in Turkish: Music Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 66 in Türkiye Murat Ögütçü .-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 Yilmaz, 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 Çagri and Genco Erkal’s Sivas’93 Özlem Özmen-Akdogan .-12. Navigating Intermedial Adaptation through Translation: Dear Shameless Death Dirmit Naciye Saglam .-13. A Discussion on Yesilçam's Adaptive Strategies with Cem Kaya Taner Can and Seda Öz.

Seda Öz is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of English at the University of Delaware. 

Taner Can is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at TED University.