The art of screen adaptation / Alistair Owen.
Publisher: Harpenden : Creative Essentials, 2020Description: 288 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0042956179ISBN: 9780857302274 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Film adaptations | Literature | Literature: history & criticism | Films, cinema | Screenwriting techniques | Film scripts & screenplaysDDC classification: 808.23 LOC classification: PN1997.85Summary: Producers and audiences are hungrier than ever for stories, and a lot of those stories begin life as a book - but how exactly do you transfer a story from the page to the screen? Alistair Owen puts all key questions to some of the top names in screenwriting, including Hossein Amini (Drive), Jeremy Brock (The Last King of Scotland), Moira Buffini (Jane Eyre), Lucinda Coxon (The Danish Girl), Nick Hornby (An Education), and more.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Producers and audiences are hungrier than ever for stories, and a lot of those stories begin life as a book - but how exactly do you transfer a story from the page to the screen? Alistair Owen puts all key questions to some of the top names in screenwriting, including Hossein Amini (Drive), Jeremy Brock (The Last King of Scotland), Moira Buffini (Jane Eyre), Lucinda Coxon (The Danish Girl), Nick Hornby (An Education), and more.
Producers and audiences are hungrier than ever for stories, and a lot of those stories begin life as a book - but how exactly do you transfer a story from the page to the screen? Alistair Owen puts all key questions to some of the top names in screenwriting, including Hossein Amini (Drive), Jeremy Brock (The Last King of Scotland), Moira Buffini (Jane Eyre), Lucinda Coxon (The Danish Girl), Nick Hornby (An Education), and more.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. 7)
- Drive (2011) / McMafia (2018) (p. 9)
- The Last King of Scotland (2006) / Brideshead Revisited (2008) (p. 32)
- Tamara Drewe (2010) / Jane Eyre (2011) (p. 56)
- The Crimson Petal and the White (2011) / The Danish G/rf (2015) (p. 74)
- Three Decades of Adaptations: House of Cards to Les Misérables (p. 96)
- Atonement (2007) / A Dangerous Method (2011) (p. 111)
- The Hours (2002) / The Reader (2008) (p. 135)
- Girl with a Peart Earring (2003) / Wuthering Heights (2011) (p. 157)
- An Education (2009) / Wild(2014) (p. 181)
- Pride & Prejudice (2005) / The Diary of Anne Frank (2009) (p. 202)
- And When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007) / Patrick Melrose (2018) (p. 220)
- Great Expectations (2011) / And Then There Were None (2015) (p. 253)
- Index (p. 277)
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