Our current, numerous retellings of the Theranos tale are just that—retellings.
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Staver's paintings are theatrical retellings of myth, an imaginative intervention.
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The essay that complements the series offers more literal retellings.
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The film had a few parallels to famous retellings of Cinderella.
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I've read the stories that have influenced these retellings numerous time.
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Hence the seemingly endless stream of remakes, reboots, retellings, reimaginings, sequels.
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Unfortunately, many of Anger's gossipy, falsity-ridden retellings merely perpetuated inaccuracies.
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With a story this juicy, multiple pop culture retellings were inevitable.
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Some of Serebrennikov's retellings bear little resemblance to their source material.
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In the world of constant reboots and retellings, that's a radical idea.
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Join us in the episode above as we talk about his dark retellings.
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Mr. Fox and Boy, Snow, Bird were retellings, but this one's about gingerbread.
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His tweets are grim and occasionally darkly funny retellings of historic witch trials.
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Both retellings landed trailing ethical questions about entertainment derived from recent terrorist incidents.
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Intercut with their collective story are Vere's retellings of the lives of the saints.
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In this sense fantasy novels are creative retellings of our own society's origin story.
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They are the country mice of Aesop's fable and its many variants and retellings.
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And even the gods who feature only briefly in these retellings have distinctive voices.
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Enough with the reboots, remakes, and origin stories, the retellings and the reimaginings and revisitations.
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And given the contemporary penchant for true-crime retellings, none of this seems too surprising.
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What about that period is interesting to you as fodder for dramatic retellings of those events?
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Popular retellings of the myth, however, focus on what happens next—and Perseus the starring role.
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It is all by now a story whose retellings are remembered more than the story itself.
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In their retellings, first period stories are precise in a way that most memories are not.
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This is a danger for fairy tale retellings, generally, and why so many of them fail.
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Given their 'outsider' status, why were they invested in commissioning fictional retellings of Song Yang's story?
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Rudolf Nureyev's death-laden 1977 staging was one of the first conceptual retellings of the story.
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And there is something in these retellings that pulls us into reenacting and reliving these moments.
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Over the past few years, reboots, revivals, and retellings have proven to be The Hot New Thing.
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Both, along with eye-popping real estate prices, exist but became inflated in retellings beyond the city.
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Despite, or maybe because of, having so many divergent retellings, Wonderboy 3 remained a quietly loved tale.
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The tragedy of Wander and the Colossus comes to PS4 next year, joining a generation of retellings.
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I particularly love Pat Barker's, Madeline Miller's and Margaret Atwood's feminist retellings of classic stories and myths.
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They're up against major inequalities, from structural racism embedded in school systems to inaccurate retellings of history. Aug.
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She elevates what might be short anecdotes in our own retellings, to witty, intelligent observations on modern life.
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At this point, it's safe to say that queer retellings are mainstream, and more will certainly be forthcoming.
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But who among us hasn't fallen for one of the more modern retellings of the Bard's famous plays?
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What more capacious retellings of history, with black heroes instead of sentimentalized Confederates, are you willing to endorse?
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Periodically, she inserts retellings of Italian folk tales borrowed from, among other sources, "The Decameron" and Italo Calvino.
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Consequently, neorealist photographs were produced as operatic retellings of the immediate past — dramatic, heroic, hubristic, and sometimes even farcical.
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Dark retellings are deeply valuable to the canon; Panna a netvor explores the underbelly of the story's genteel presumptions.
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The company has produced other feature-length stories, but they've consistently been sequels or retellings of existing television series.
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Something that is lost in many retellings of this story is just how good a boxer Michael Spinks was.
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These stories, the ones that act as calling cards and life rafts, often gain inconsistencies through their repeated retellings.
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Maybe you can plan a royal marathon with Lifetime's fictional retellings of the decade's two biggest royal love stories.
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Those troubled by his promise of a "Jupiterian" presidency may want to peruse Robert Graves's retellings of the Greek myths.
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Director Damien Chazelle keeps his eye on the unromantic details that usually get glossed over in retellings of historical events.
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Characters reappear in dreams or retellings as the action moves from the Cape Coast to Kumasi to Baltimore to Harlem.
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Inspired by these, we created a playlist for the "Odyssey," which focuses on allusions or retellings of Homer's epic poem.
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As the best-picture category has expanded in recent years, the academy has looked beyond literary dramas and historical retellings.
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Reviewing it, Joan Silber calls the novel a "wild and superbly intelligent reimagining" that avoids the pitfalls of biblical retellings.
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Ashley Madison also got some spiffy new commercials, all of which look like unauthorized Lifetime retellings of Fifty Shades of Grey.
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The technique borrows a bit from Raymond Queneau's 1947 "Exercises in Style," 99 retellings of the same story in different genres.
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Families, after all, construct gigantic mythologies about themselves, full of inside jokes and constant retellings of important moments in family history.
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These sophisticated retellings by the author of "The Golden Compass" cover 50 tales, including a fascinating number of lesser-known stories.
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There were also bad moments for Biden: selective retellings and lavish sugarcoating of votes and comments he'd made in the past.
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There's a lot that's invisible in the retellings of that version of black history, which subverts a great portion of our heritage.
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All we have are some myths that have come to us in the form of folktales, in retellings, in poems, in prose.
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The new Dumbo is directed by Alice in Wonderland's Tim Burton, who is no stranger to crafting retellings of classic Disney tales.
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Pop culture is filled with retellings that don't just recount facts and data, but manage to thrill and entertain us as well.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Malcolm Morley's paintings at Sperone Westwater are sumptuous, ingenuous, and ridiculous retellings of rather grim actualities.
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At first blush, one might think multi-part retellings of stories where everyone knows the outcome would amount to, pardon the expression, overkill.
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In modern retellings, he's a Spanish or Italian chimney sweep who's been covered in a permanent layer of soot, which is somewhat better.
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In my life, most stories of sobriety had been fed to me through after-school specials or sensationalized retellings on the evening news.
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According to Langford, every time her character is depicted throughout the sophomore season, it's through flashbacks and retellings seen from other people's perspectives.
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From children's movies like Lion King to cult hits like Strange Brews to more traditional retellings, the world just can't get enough of Hamlet.
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Retellings of the more distant past dwell on Britain as an island nation, a place where foreign invaders were repelled and distant lands seized.
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Le Morte D'Artur became one of the primary sources for later writers when they decided to craft their own retellings of the Arthurian legend.
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So many stories are retellings of other stories in a really self-conscious way, to the extent that I almost feel like it's ritualistic.
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The 1941 circus classic is being directed by Alice in Wonderland's Tim Burton, no stranger to crafting non-animated retellings of classic Disney tales.
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In the earliest contemporaneous retellings of the story, Kraft says "it's a Super Bowl ring, it's a very good ring" while Putin examines it.
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After scouring the ghosts of A Christmas Carol's past, present, and future, we compiled a list of the weirdest retellings we had access to.
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The Hogarth Shakespeare, begun in 2015, has commissioned novelists including Margaret Atwood, Gillian Flynn and Jo Nesbo to write prose retellings of each play.
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In books, the most beautiful and stirring of the recent retellings is A.S. Byatt's Ragnarok, the story of the apocalyptic destruction of the gods.
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But it is still an important part of certain retellings of the Nativity, the story of Jesus's birth and the reason Christians celebrate Christmas.
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A strong cast, outstanding visuals, and the classic animal-centric take on Hamlet make this infinitely more watchable than some of the studio's previous retellings.
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Printed in black on a white background, the latter is a constellation of Morris's stories: "Retellings of events, fictional tales and domestic warnings," he says.
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From Wide Sargasso Sea to West Side Story to Clueless, great retellings have become beloved in their own right, filtering timeless themes through contemporary sensibilities.
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Mr. Wanniski, the hype man of the tax cut movement, was the first to publish an account in 1978, which he embroidered in multiple retellings.
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Mr. Wanniski, the hype man of the tax cut movement, was the first to publish an account, in 1978, which he embroidered in multiple retellings.
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The same goes for fairy tale retellings, which often put a twist on the conventional understanding of the myth or give more depth to woman characters.
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Names like Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane, and "copper kings" William and Marcus Daly once visited the historic inn, according to retellings of the hotel's history.
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The six-episode TV series adaptation will mimic the podcast in form and content, with documentary-style retellings of creepy events and myths from throughout history.
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Many of the recordings from 1988 to 1989 are retellings and analyses of dreams, and observations regarding the stories people have told themselves about his art.
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The St.-Martial church was repurposed as a shop specializing in comic book titles for Christian readers, whether modern spiritual tales or retellings of Bible stories.
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With the rise of the #MeToo movement, women have become bolder about using their names in retellings of traumatic sexual experiences and in sexual assault cases.
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Unlike many other gender and/or race flipped retellings, Ms. Scrooge at least attempts to tackle race and class politics (though with varying degrees of success).
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Sometimes buried in the retellings of the Black and White Ball myth is its guest of honor, Katharine Graham, whose family owned Newsweek and The Washington Post.
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Beauty and Rose Daughter are the only two of her books to be explicit retellings of "Beauty and the Beast," and they are two of her loveliest.
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Which is why recent retellings and mash-ups of fairy tales tend to give the Grimm brothers universe a feminist makeover, or at least a feminist sheen.
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The best retellings bring fresh resonance to familiar tales, and that's precisely what writer-director Greta Gerwig accomplishes with her adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.
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After his last few films went into weird places, including King Arthur retellings and Disney remakes, Guy Ritchie returns to what he does best: gritty, extremely English crime.
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But the author's singsong retellings of six famous fairy tales — with all the grotesque details Disney left out — provide an apt showcase for his twisted sense of humor.
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Time is a brave moment of truth-telling that rips the band-aid of fiction off contemporary television retellings of corruption, injustice, and systemic racism in this country.
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The title implies revision—not just presenting histories, but putting them forth in ways more complex, more fully realized, and maybe more fully human than previous retellings have.
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But although Oyeyemi's last few books have taken the form of elaborate, postmodern, fragmented fairy tale retellings, Gingerbread is not, per Oyeyemi, a retelling of Hansel and Gretel.
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Based on testimonies, interviews, and retellings from then and now by people who lived it, here's the tale of how the fateful tragedy unfolded and changed Philadelphia forever.
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In some retellings, Mr. Yang's appearance on the podcast was perhaps the single biggest turning point in his campaign, an event that vaulted the businessman onto voters' radars.
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It's still one of the best retellings of Mary Shelley's classic novel, taking the gothic horror and transmuting into one about a boy's enduring love for his strange pet.
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It's still one of the best retellings of Mary Shelley's classic novel, taking the gothic horror and transmuting into one about a boy's enduring love for his strange pet.
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On a few occasions, Mueller couldn't determine the truth -- but outlines how at least one person among a group must have been, as they gave contradictory retellings of events.
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A story this fascinating can bear a lot of documentary-style retellings — not least because Holmes's famously, uncannily, and apparently fake deep voice is so unnerving to actually hear.
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A parade of male law enforcement figures also ask Marie to describe the incident in detail and, as apparent discrepancies surface amid the retellings, her account comes into question.
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While some retellings of the playwright's complexly human stories stick to the traditional with original dialogue, others scrap the pretense entirely and opt for a modern setting entirely different.
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There is nothing about grain that fastens humanity's foot to the earth, as President John Quincy Adams put it in one of the innumerable retellings of the standard story.
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But many retellings of Halloween's queer history are dominated by gay male narratives, so I'd never considered what crossdressing could mean to a cis queer black girl like me.
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But it's hard to figure out where the ministry's information came from, and whether subsequent media retellings are accurate, have been conflated with different stories, or are even fake.
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These retellings, which occurred from the late Middle Ages through the early Renaissance, are where "Coventry Carol" comes from, and why this incredibly dismal song is even remotely Christmassy.
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Litt, who has a talent for both succinct writing and comedy (he writes for Funny or Die these days), is just as earnest in his retellings as he is realistic.
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Dieting marketers have repurposed weight loss pictures for ages, but why go to the trouble of creating entire alternate identities for these women, complete with intimate retellings of their pasts?
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When her story went viral, big media outlets picked it up, and the retellings brought a significantly more banal showdown — this one between journalists, sex-worker advocates and Twitter commentators.
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Of course, queer retellings are only a small facet of a larger movement toward LGBTQ representation and visibility in every corner of art and culture, but they're a crucial one.
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Take this macabre countdown of "the femicides that marked 2016": a listicle of the most noteworthy gender-based murders of the year, featuring play-by-play retellings of the deeds.
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In some retellings the intention was simply to gain national attention by making the offer, and that the Shelby money men could never have imagined Kearns would jump on it.
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So the heroes of my youth returned again this year in new adventures and retellings of old ones, maybe embellished a little bit more this time for the new generation.
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He sometimes repeats parts of Alex's story, ostensibly to layer them with more perspectives and information each time, but the information he adds is often insufficient to warrant the retellings.
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And on the subject of retellings, you might watch this recording of Antoinette Nwandu's play "Pass Over," a reworking of "Waiting for Godot" that Spike Lee filmed for Amazon Prime.
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As for Noah, once we're past his slightly different but mostly the same retellings of his time with Juliette we see him meet up with his daughter, Whitney (Julia Goldani Telles).
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Nancy Kerrigan's shattered knee, O.J. Simpson's infamous white Bronco, and JonBenét Ramsey's macabre glamor shots plastered tabloid covers for much of the decade and continue to darkly fascinate through modern retellings.
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To consume any or all of the Theranos retellings is to begin to feel that Holmes' true calling was not to become a visionary, but to become a vector of content.
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The Mere WifeMaria Dahvana HeadleyJuly 17The Mere Wife is a book on par with Lidia Yuknavitch's The Book of Joan: electric, feminist, literary retellings of famous tales, but with dystopian spins.
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The trend is clear in YA, where more straightforward retellings often pass a kind of judgment on the nature of fairy-tale tropes, like the damsel in distress, that are damaging.
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Oyeyemi has written five novels, including the acclaimed "Boy, Snow, Bird," a recasting of "Snow White," though to categorize any of her work simply as "fairy-tale retellings" would be reductive.
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The sudden spike in abortions after the disaster is yet another indicator that Chernobyl exacted an unimaginable human cost that even the most dedicated retellings will never be able to capture.
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" • Creative visual retellings include Gareth Hinds's graphic novel "The Odyssey," Marvel's comic series from 22011-22015 and the Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Eric Shanower's multivolume Trojan War series, "Age of Bronze.
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Two retellings of her origin last year made it clear that Diana of Themyscira, as she is known out of costume, had same-sex relationships before she left her island home.
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While the books don't take place in the same universe, they're both set in fantasy lands with Eastern European influences, and they both play with fairy-tale tropes without becoming literal retellings.
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Donna Jo Napoli made a cottage industry out of dark fairy tale retellings long before Tim Burton got his hands on Alice in Wonderland, but Beast is one of her least gritty.
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There are retellings of how someone met their partner or best friend at a Placebo show, and photos of personal tokens—old merch, customized pendants, tattoos—that symbolize a connection to the album.
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But she also worries about what would happen to the novel's legacy when the inevitable homages and retellings land, which will probably include unauthorized Gatsby sequels or novels told from Daisy Buchanan's perspective.
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Here's Alison Willmore: "To consume any or all of the Theranos retellings is to begin to feel that Holmes' true calling was not to become a visionary, but to become a vector of content."
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The magazine's "It Happened to Me" section, which publishes first-person retellings of Fortean experiences, makes it clear that the magazine's readers subscribe not only to the publication but also to its central philosophy.
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"The Tempest" has been retold many times, from science fiction ("Forbidden Planet") to dense philosophical poetry (Auden's "The Sea and the Mirror"), but the retellings all tend to force one back to the original.
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Although much of this movie's plot is consistent with other popular retellings of "Cinderella," this version is made unique by its book and score, which are crafted by the famed composer duo Rodgers and Hammerstein.
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Not because Crusoe forged a utopian world for himself using a few tools that survived a shipwreck, but because, as Marxist economists have noted, most retellings of the story ignore where the tools came from.
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Between searing visuals of students shitting themselves in the halls and deadly serious retellings of the incident, this is highbrow poop humor, the likes of which our childhood selves — and hell, our adult selves — dream of.
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Also, after so many screen versions of Spider-Man, and especially so many retellings of his origin story, a film that departs this far from the predictable beats while keeping the character intact is pretty compelling.
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Perhaps bogeymen conjured in personalized national traumas, in one-sided retellings of the Alamo, Pearl Harbor, September 11th, or any of the myriad other episodes that encourage the stockpiling of weapons and the building of walls.
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"Alternative Facts" sounds a lot like the book's "Newspeak," the simplification and rebranding of common language, and "Doublethink," whereby the government controls historical records and the news, sounds an awful lot like Breitbart retellings of current events.
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Given the show's interest in dramatic retellings of recent British history, it is hardly surprising that season 2 would conclude with the words of the writer who made telling such stories an enduring art form: William Shakespeare.
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Nothing they have done lately suggests that they have learned anything, including their obtuse post-#MeToo comments about Monica Lewinsky, who has been far more candid and sympathetic in the 20th anniversary retellings of the impeachment saga.
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Libicki's layered retellings are one of the varied narrative strategies mobilized to interpret traumatic memory in Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival, a comics anthology featuring the work of more than 60 artists.
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As the first season finale played out, I was surprised how invested I was in seeing the characters get out of the story alive — even though retellings of The Exorcist usually feature a fair number of corpses.
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Ancient Assyria doesn't actually have much recorded beyond Gilgamesh and some creation myths—so I started casting my net around Sumeria, but their stories very quickly get trampled by Greek and Roman retellings, which I mostly avoided.
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Here, visitors are able to watch dramatic retellings of Nordic mythology and soak in a public bath with other goths—which sounds weird as hell so I didn't try it, but I'm sure it's fun for some people.
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Across the many retellings and translations of this story, the end remains consistent: All the gods — yes, even Thor and Loki — die heroes' deaths in the melee, the sun goes out, and the world sinks into the sea.
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In the clip, unveiled Wednesday by NBC, Randall (Emmy nominee Sterling K. Brown) confronts his mother (Mandy Moore) about the story of his adoption as an infant, one he argues may have been sugar-coated in past retellings.
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In other retellings the group intercepted a Montana based manager and promoter named Mike Collins, who was barnstorming through the state with several of his fighters at the time, and asked him to approach Kearns on their behalf.
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But in terms of tone and execution, the four-part event series from ABC is wildly uneven, crossing from moving stories of romance under oppression to retellings of history that are so broadly pitched — and with such bad wigs!
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Though early retellings of the story often focused on Manson himself, later ones have tackled the motivations of the girls, and the ways that their willingness to prostrate themselves to Manson's desires and orders reflects and twists patriarchal assumptions.
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One of its strangest and most enduring retellings, though, is that of the 2003 movie Party Monster, which was directed by two guys called Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (the same duo who would go on to produce RuPaul's Drag Race).
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Retellings tend to focus on the many deeply alarming aspects of this case, ranging from O'Hara's years of struggling with mental health issues to a predator whose clear warning signs were never reported to authorities until it was too late.
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Some of the 20th century's most memorable retellings of the classics have come in the vein of critique: Think of the feminist and postcolonial angles of Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea" ("Jane Eyre") or J. M. Coetzee's "Foe" ("Robinson Crusoe").
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Hosts Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark usually talk through humorous retellings of their favorite slayings, but on the August 20 show they discussed new Sony movie "Searching" and listeners' examples of people who hide secrets, a theme of the film.
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As the seemingly endless retellings of the Ramsey case makes clear, these stories get a longer shelf life once the cast of characters widens, and they can be framed as mysteries about seemingly suspicious parents, and — even more specifically — about murderous bad mothers.
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"In the beginning was the myth" is the first sentence of "Peter Camenzind," the book that rescued Hesse from poverty and obscurity; and many of his books are retellings of the same myth, one that Hesse devised to interpret his own unhappy existence.
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It was a scattered, all over the place evening, which flitted randomly from accusations that Hillary Clinton should go to prison to lengthy retellings of the tragedy at Benghazi, from jeering dismissals of trans bathroom rights to Joni Ernst's memories of the Ukraine.
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The books are a mix of retellings of the 2016 campaign by Trump-friendly voices (his tweet this morning promoted "The Great Revolt") and books written by commentators (Fox News' Ainsley Earhardt) and personal friends (Roma Downey, the wife of reality TV executive Mark Burnett).
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The story of Theranos's Silicon Valley rise and eventual total collapse — the company has dissolved, and Holmes was indicted on fraud charges — has lent itself to multiple retellings in various formats, including long-read articles, a meticulously researched book and a podcast, among others.
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The same things happen in it, albeit with the sort of embellishments that would naturally adhere to a story after eight years of private retellings; in the Waldorf-Astoria Remix, for instance, Putin remarks "I can kill someone with this ring" as part of his appraisal.
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Most are long, detailed retellings of what life used to be like before conflict erupted and how drastically things have changed now, as told by shopkeepers, ex-car dealers turned into chefs for the kitchens of local NGOs, and everyday people struggling to hold on with their families.
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"Adampol was a horrible catastrophe, and yet no one has ever heard of it," said Helen Maryles Shankman, who lives in Teaneck, N.J. She turned her mother's stories of surviving Adampol as a child into several fictionalized retellings, including "In the Land of Armadillos," her most recent book, published this year by Scribner.
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If you're already deeply familiar with the story, certain points won't come as a surprise: Holmes's apparent fascination with Steve Jobs and Apple is mentioned constantly across all the retellings (her black turtleneck aesthetic especially), as is her deep voice, perhaps an affectation, even though it's really only notable if it's fake.
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We are living in an age of great cultural interest in ancient myths, including TV dramas ("Troy: Fall of a City"), literary retellings (Neil Gaiman's compelling "Norse Mythology"), novels that reinvent myth in a modern context (Kamila Shamsie's brilliant "Home Fire") and novels set in the classical past (Madeline Miller's moving "Circe").
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While its economic and social stakes have necessarily lowered since the 19th century, some say the marriage plot can still succeed today on sheer emotional stakes — Adelle Waldman made this argument nicely in the New Yorker a few years ago, and the sheer prevalence of contemporary Pride and Prejudice retellings suggests the same.
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It's remarkably easy to recast Barrie's "gay and innocent and heartless" Peter as a villain, and just as easy to reimagine Captain Hook — the former Eton student who is obsessed with "good form" — as a hero (see Once Upon a Time, The Child Thief, Hook and Jill, and dozens of other recent Peter Pan retellings).
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Starting by analyzing the French novel Madame Chrysanthème (1887) that became a then pop-cultural sensation spawning countless adaptations and retellings, it shows how the trope of the seemingly delicate and beautiful woman capable of acts of violence seeped into modern cinema — from Japanese horror movies, such as Audition, to Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill saga.
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The movie — one of several retellings of the legend, including a 1956 Ingrid Bergman film of the same name — put forth a fanciful, if not historically accurate, premise: What if Anastasia had not been murdered in the Bolshevik Revolution along with her four siblings in 1918, but instead had survived with a touch of amnesia?
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The plot has some creaky elements—a duplicitous international art star and an estate named Summer Madness play important roles—but Gappah creates memorable characters, and illuminates Zimbabwe's society and politics in fascinating ways, especially in her depictions of prison life, and in her retellings of the harrowing stories that landed the inmates there.
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While a central violent incident is at the core of the tale, the novel postpones telling that part of the story while the author establishes how its meaning is framed by the different circumstances under which he relates it to the police, his sister, one friend, and then others, and how the facts are prone to mutate in the retellings.
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Jim Warren, the artistic director of the American Shakespeare Center, said in a news release that the company wasn't looking for straight retellings but, rather, wider-ranging riffs that might include sequels or prequels; plays focused on minor characters or on the first productions of one of Shakespeare's dramas; or plays that feature modern characters interacting with those from Shakespeare.
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It is relevant because the literature of the Holocaust continues to be written anew, as the first generation of survivors bent on documenting the obscene reality of the ghettos and concentration camps (Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, Tadeusz Borowski) has yielded to a second — and now third — generation more at ease with imaginative retellings, be they fictional accounts of the events (Jerzy Kosinski, Imre Kertesz, Leslie Epstein) or alternate histories (Jonathan Safran Foer, Michael Chabon, Howard Jacobson).
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