Anne Frank’s Diary on Stage and Screen: Controversy, Consensus, and Adaptation

This volume sheds new light on the most recent engagements with this iconic diary, including three-dimensional video representations, virtual reality films, applications, and escape rooms. These technology-based adaptations mediate the Diary for contemporary audiences. The articles in this volume present a multi-disciplinary engagement that emphasizes the Diary as a living document that transcends its own genre, and its smooth transition into a new era.

Essays highlight the continued relevance and poignancy of The Diary of a Young Girl. The Diary is contextualized with contemporary and WWII diaries, blogging, notions of childhood, adolescence, and gender. It explores the Diary's diverse and dynamic representations in comics, theatre, TV, Youtube, in the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam as well as its remarkable reception in the US and in Japan.