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Adaptations : from short story to big screen : 35 great stories that have inspired great films
Title
Adaptations : from short story to big screen : 35 great stories that have inspired great films / edited by Stephanie Harrison.
ISBN
9781400053148 (pbk.)
1400053145 (pbk.)
Edition
First edition.
Published
New York : Three Rivers Press, c2005.
Physical Description
xix, 619 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Summary
Adaptations offers insight into the process of turning a short story into a screenplay, one that, when successful, doesn't take drastic liberties with the text upon which it is based, but doesn't mirror its source material too closely either.
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Other formats
Also issued online.
Online version: Adaptations. 1st ed. New York : Three Rivers Press, c2005
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 20, 2014
Contents
Jerry and Molly and Sam / Raymond Carver
Blow-up / Julio Cortázar
Your Arkansas traveler / Budd Schulberg
Rear window / Cornell Woolrich
The sentinel / Arthur C. Clarke
Supertoys last all summer long / Brian Aldiss
The minority report / Philip K. Dick
Spurs / Tod Robbins
The fly / George Langelaan
Herbert West
Reanimator: six shots by moonlight / H.P. Lovecraft
Stage to Lordsburg / Ernest Haycox
A man called Horse / Dorothy M. Johnson
This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / Sherman Alexie
The Harvey Pekar name story / Harvey Pekar
Ghost world
Chapter 5: "Hubba Hubba" / Daniel Clowes
The wisdom of Eve / Mary Orr
A reputation / Richard Edward Connell
Mr. Blandings builds his castle / Eric Hodgins
Cyclists' raid / Frank Rooney
Tomorrow / William Faulkner
Bringing up Baby / Hagar Wilde
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
The swimmer / John Cheever
The killers / Ernest Hemingway
The basement room / Graham Greene
Memento mori / Jonathan Nolan
Red Ryder nails the Hammond Kid / Jean Shepherd
My friend Flicka / Mary O'Hara
Shoeless Joe Jackson comes to Iowa / W.P. Kinsella
In a grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa
The lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov
Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates
Auggie Wren's Christmas story / Paul Auster
Emergency / Denis Johnson
Killings / Andre Dubus.
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