Numbers 33-34 2011 Adaptation

IN THIS ISSUE JAST Page Number The Adaptation Community Laurence Raw 1 Articles JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES OF TURKEY JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES Adaptation Past, Present and Future – An Interview Jim Welsh 5 Adapting to the Times: Adaptation as a Form of Translation John Milton 21 in Different Periods in Brazil The Transcultural Transmedia Media Mix Bronwin Patrickson and 43 Sherman Young JAST A Strategy of Cultural Americanization Elisabeth Bladh 65 JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES OF TURKEY Women in the Cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan Olgahan Baksi Naylor 75 Book Reviews Ray Browne on the Culture Studies Revolution: An Anthology of His Gloria Galindo 87 Key Writings Adaptation Studies: New Approaches W. C. Bamberger 89 The Literary Monster on Film: Five Nineteenth Century British Novels Daniel O’Brien 91 and Their Cinematic Adaptations Birds of America: Stories Sibel Erbayraktar 94 Still in Print: The Southern Novel Today Tanfer Emin Tunç 96 Terror Tracks: Music, Sound and Horror Cinema and The Simpsons Martin Fradley 99 in the Classroom E pluribus unum or E pluribus plura? Unity and Diversity in American Susan Savage Lee 104 Culture: European Views of the United States Weaponizing Anthrolopogy Thomas C. Smedley 107 The Post-American World Jamie Merchant 110 ADAPTATION Reset Middle East: Old Friends and New Alliances: Saudi Arabia, John R. Lewis 113 Israel, Turkey, Iran ADAPTATION Islam and Modernity in Turkey Efrat Aviv 115 Towards a Social History of Modern Turkey: Essays in Theory and Nikos Christifis 118 Practice Film and Television Reviews New York’ta Beş Minare Colleen Kennedy Karpat 121 Barış Ağır Kari-guashi no Arietti Christopher Holliday 126 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger James Harvey-Davitt 129 Meek’s Cutoff Michael Oppermann 131 True Grit John Trafton 134 Never Let Me Go Jon Lisi 137 NUMBERS 33 - 34 Anonymous Llewella Burton 139 District 9 Vincent Gaine 142 Contagion Áine Llang Young 145 The Lady Steve Presence 147 NUMBERS 33-34 ISSN 1300-6606 2011 ALP OFSET ANKARA, 2012 Journal of American Studies of Turkey A semiannual publication of the American Studies Association of Turkey, Journal of American Studies The Editors welcome submission of material for consideration as an article, as a review, as a comment of Turkey operates with a blind peer referee system. 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Ankara, Turkey Baskı ve Basım Tarihi: Berkem Gürenci Sağlam Copies and Date: 150 adet, Haziran 2013 Başkent University, Department of American Culture and Literature, Ankara, Turkey. 150 copies, June 2013 E-mails [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] ISSN 1300-6606 Journal of American Studies of Turkey Editor-in-Chief Özlem Uzundemir Çankaya University, Ankara Editor Associate Editor Laurence Raw Berkem Gürenci Sağlam Başkent University, Ankara Başkent University, Ankara Film Review Editors Book Review Editor Berkem Gürenci Sağlam Mehmet Ali Çelikel Sema Taşkın Pamukkale University Bilkent University, Ankara Editorial Board Nur Gökalp Akkerman Eric Gruver Hacettepe University, Ankara Texas A&M University, Commerce Gert Buelens Perin Gürel Ghent University, Belgium Dickinson College, Carlisle, USA Nicholas J. Cull Martin Halliwell University of Southern California University of Leicester, UK Philip Davies Ayse Lahur Kırtunç De Montfort University, UK Emeritus, Ege University, İzmir Gerald Duchovnay Gönül Pultar Texas A&M University, Commerce Cultural Studies Association, İstanbul David N. Eldridge Atilla Silkü University of Hull, UK Ege University, İzmir David Espey Meldan Tanrısal University of Pennsylvania Hacettepe University, Ankara Matthew J. Gumpert Tanfer Emin Tunç Boğaziçi University, İstanbul Hacettepe University, Ankara Barış Gümüşbaş James M. Welsh Hacettepe University, Ankara Salisbury University, Maryland . List of Contributors Elisabeth Bladh is a Senior Lecturer of French at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where she teaches courses in French Linguistics and Translation (French to Swedish). She is currently a Research Fellow at the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. Her research interests covers literary translation, the sociology of translation and Bible translation. John

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