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Title: | Walking in Her Footsteps: Migration, Adaptation, and the Mother's Journey in 'Romulus, My Father' | Contributor(s): | Hopgood, Fincina (author) | Publication Date: | 2016 | DOI: | 10.1093/adaptation/apu048 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20498 | Abstract: | Philosopher Raimond Gaita's acclaimed and much-loved memoir of his childhood in 1950s rural Victoria, 'Romulus, My Father' (1998), was adapted for a feature film in 2007, starring Eric Bana and Franka Potente. Gaita worked closely with the film's director, Australian actor Richard Roxburgh, and scriptwriter, English poet Nick Drake, throughout the scripting process, and wrote an extended introduction to the published screenplay. While speaking highly of the film's production team and admiring the finished film in this introduction, Gaita's subsequent writing in 'After Romulus', a collection of essays published in 2011, reveals his unease with the film's portrayal of the character Christina, based on his mother who suffered from an undiagnosed mental illness and committed suicide at the age of 29. This article examines the dialogic relationship between the three texts of memoir, film, and essay and their attempts to empathetically imagine the life of Christine Gaita. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Adaptation: The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies, 9(1), p. 22-34 | Publisher: | Oxford University Press | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1755-0645 1755-0637 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200502 Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature) 190201 Cinema Studies |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470502 Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature) 360501 Cinema studies |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950503 Understanding Australia's Past | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130703 Understanding Australia’s past | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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