Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling

Acknowledgments

Writing this book would not have been possible without the support of California State University, Northridge, where I’ve taught screenplay adaptation and film as literature for over two decades, and my students, whose passion and scholarship challenged us all to expand our knowledge of this subject. My profound thanks to two of CSUN’s Department of Cinema and Television Arts Chairs: Dr. John Schultheiss for helping me to make the transition from teaching film production (and screenwriting) to teaching media theory and criticism (and screenwriting), and Prof. Jon Stahl for encouraging me to experiment by adding television and new media studies during my recent years of teaching screenplay adaptation. Both Schultheiss and Stahl ...