Robert Edgar, John Marland

Adaptation for Screenwriters (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Develop the critical and creative skills to 'translate' a story from page to screen with this step-by-step guide to the process of screen adaptation you'll learn to:

- interrogate a novel or short story to release its 'inner film'
- convert fictional prose into visual drama
- overcome the obstacles presented by different media 'languages'
- approach key strategic decisions - both technical and interpretive
- draft and re-draft your plot, characters and dialogue
- professionally format and submit your finished script

In addition to examples taken from 'literary classics', contemporary novels, genre fiction, short stories, and biographical material, Marland and Edgar embrace the wider phenomenon of re-telling and updating existing stories, such as the 'appropriation' of popular figures, inter-film adaptation (sequels and 'reboots'), and development into other visual forms including graphic fiction and video games.

Whether you are producing a faithful adaptation of Tolstoy's War and Peace, or planning to pair up the crime-fighting duo of Sherlock Holmes and Batman, Adaptation for Screenwriters will be your guide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350036680
• Artikelnr.: 58028170

Autorenporträt

Robert Edgar is Professor of Writing and Popular Culture in the York Centre for Writing based in the School of Humanities at York St John University, UK. He has published on Screenwriting (2009), Directing Fiction (2009), The Language of Film (Bloomsbury, 2010 and 2015), The Music Documentary (2013), The Arena Concert (Bloomsbury, 2015), Music, Memory and Memoir (Bloomsbury, 2019), Adaptation for Scriptwriters (Bloomsbury, 2019), and Venue Stories (2023). He is co-editing the forthcoming Bloomsbury publication, Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children's Fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART 1 - THEORY 1. Different Languages Approaching Adaptation
Issues of Form Channels of Communication Case Study: Enduring Love,
High-Rise Exercises 2. The Challenge of Translation Being Faithful Finding
the Film in the Book Dramatizing the Page Case Study: Kiss of the Spider
Woman, Fight Club Exercises PART 2 - ADAPTATION 3. Narrative
Re/Construction Story and Structure Culture and Context Adapting to Genre
Case Study: The English Patient, No Country for Old Men Exercises 4.
Faithful Invention Acts of Interpretation Reframing - Prologues and Codas
Expanding the Short Story Case Study: Don't Look Now, The Shawshank
Redemption Exercises 5. The Human Subject Character - Surface and Depth
Screening Psychology Capturing Conflict Case Study: The Great Gatsby, The
Talented Mr Ripley Exercises PART 3 - APPROPRIATION 6. Texts Unbound
Intertextuality Customizing the Classic Text Weaving Fact and Fiction Case
Study: Regeneration, The Hours Exercises 7. Textual Play Hypotextuality
Twelve Strategies Fan Film Case Study: Dr Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes
Exercises 8. Other Forms Stage to Screen The Graphic Novel Video Game to
Film Case Study: Alan Moore, Alien vs. Predator Exercises PART 4 - PRACTICE
9. Process Assessing the Material Centre and Circumference Concept,
Treatment and Pitch Case Study: Original Material Exercises 10. The Script
First Draft - Dialogue Redrafting - From Scene to Scene Final Draft -
Self-Reflection Case Study: Original Material Exercises