Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling Screenwriting and Global Storytelling

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/

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

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