Welcome to the world of adaptation! While the movie Adaptation (USA, 2002), written by Charlie Kaufman, refers to the Darwinian principle of adaptation as well as a screenwriter’s struggles to write one, this book will focus on the writing process. It’s not just about adapting novels or nonfiction to film, however: writers also work in television; we write webisodes and novelizations. For our source materials, we look at short stories, manga, comic strips, biographies, plays, and a variety of other media – sometimes more than one at a time. Great Adaptations includes both faithful and loose examples: Marielle Heller’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl (USA, 2015), for example, not only faithfully renders most of the storyline ...
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