Alexis Krasilovsky

Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317363590
• Artikelnr.: 49986749

Autorenporträt

Alexis Krasilovsky is professor of Screenwriting and Media Theory and Criticism at California State University Northridge, teaching courses in Screenplay Adaptation and Film as Literature. Krasilovsky is a member of the Writers Guild of America, West, and was the writer/director of the award-winning global documentaries Women Behind the Camera (2007) and Let Them Eat Cake (2014). She is also the author of Women Behind the Camera: Conversations with Camerawomen (1997), and co-author of Shooting Women: Behind the Camera, Around the World (2015). Krasilovsky's narrative film, Blood (1976), was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times as "in its stream-of-consciousness way, more powerful than Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver."

Visit Alexis Krasilovsky's website at www.alexiskrasilovsky.com

Inhaltsangabe

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