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Brogan, Jacob. "Stop/Watch: Repressing History, Adapting Watchmen." The Politics of Adaptation. Media Convergence and Ideology. Eds. Dan A. Hassler-Forest and Pascal Nicklas. New York [etc.]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 214–26. 
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Resource type: Book Chapter
Language: en: English
DOI: 10.1057/9781137443854_16
BibTeX citation key: Brogan2015
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Keywords: "Watchmen", Adaptation, Film adaptation, Gibbons. Dave, Moore. Alan, United Kingdom
Creators: Brogan, Hassler-Forest, Nicklas
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (New York [etc.])
Collection: The Politics of Adaptation. Media Convergence and Ideology
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Abstract
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ 1986 graphic novel Watchmen was long understood to be an unfilmable work. This opinion surely has a great deal to do with the novel’s notorious chronological density: over the course of its 12 chapters, Watchmen’s narrative moves backwards, forwards, and sideways in time, now with jarring suddenness, now with subtle ease. In the process, it weaves together a dizzying array of real and imagined histories in a way ill suited to the limited scope of Hollywood narrative form. Against this playfully plural approach to history, the polarizing 2009 film adaptation defines itself by a fidelity to the original novel’s historical moment so absolute that it all but abolishes the chronological gamesmanship of its source material.
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