Table of Contents
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