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Book Description

Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling is the Second Place Winner in the 2019 International Writers Awards!

A vast majority of Academy Award-winning Best Pictures, television movies of the week, and mini-series are adaptations, watched by millions of people globally. Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling examines the technical methods of adapting novels, short stories, plays, life stories, magazine articles, blogs, comic books, graphic novels and videogames from one medium to another, focusing on the screenplay. Written in a clear and succinct style, perfect for intermediate and advanced screenwriting students, Great Adaptations explores topics essential to fully appreciating the creative, historical and sociological aspects of the adaptation process. It also provides up-to-date, practical advice on the legalities of acquiring rights and optioning and selling adaptations, and is inclusive of a diverse variety of perspectives that will inspire and challenge students and screenwriters alike.

Please follow the link below to a short excerpt from an interview with Carole Dean about Great Adaptations:

https://fromtheheartproductions.com/getting-creative-when-creating-great-adaptations/

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. FOREWORD
  7. PREFACE
  8. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  9. PART I: INTRODUCING ADAPTATION
    1. Chapter 1 Creative Issues: Where Do Ideas Come From?
    2. Chapter 2 Career Issues: Writers’ and Producers’ Standpoints
    3. Chapter 3 The Ethics and Aesthetics of Adaptation
  10. PART II: APPLYING SCREENPLAY PRINCIPLES TO ADAPTATION
    1. Chapter 4 Plot
    2. Chapter 5 Setting
    3. Chapter 6 Characters and Character Relationships
    4. Chapter 7 Dialogue
    5. Chapter 8 Structure: Heroes and Heroines - Where Are We Going?
  11. PART III: A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO ADAPTATION
    1. Chapter 9 The Process
  12. PART IV: RENEWING THE SPIRIT IN MYTHS AND FAIRY TALES
    1. Chapter 10 Fairy Tale Factors: From Spindle to Kindle
    2. Chapter 11 The Beasts: From Cocteau to Cable
  13. PART V: GLOBAL STORYTELLING REVISITED
    1. Chapter 12 Stories without Borders
    2. Chapter 13 Regional vs. International Perspectives: Universalizing Regional Stories
  14. PART VI: MODERN PERSPECTIVES ON ROMANCE
    1. Chapter 14 Love and Romance Adaptations
  15. PART VII: BRINGING UP THE CLASSICS
    1. Chapter 15 From Ancient Greece to Hollywood and Nollywood
    2. Chapter 16 Chunhyang, Orpheus, and Other Myths
    3. Chapter 17 Keeping It Literary in China
  16. PART VIII: EMBRACING AND RETHINKING STRUCTURE
    1. Chapter 18 Timing the Times
    2. Chapter 19 Alternative Focus Topics for the Story of Malcolm X
  17. PART IX: CENSORSHIP
    1. Chapter 20 Retelling, Limited
  18. PART X: FUTURE ADAPTATIONS
    1. Chapter 21 Future Adaptations
  19. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  20. INDEX
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