Writers Store: The Art of Adaptation: Turning Fact and Fiction into Film

The Art of Adaptation: Turning Fact and Fiction into Film
Linda Seger

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Format: Softcover, 238 pages
ISBN: 0805016260
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Pub. Date: February 1992

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Required reading for anyone interested in transforming novels, plays or true-life stories into screenplays by a master teacher. Excellent commentary on the challenges and the pleasures of reworking literature into the visual media and clearly cited case studies show by example. Nearly 85% of all Best Picture Oscar winners came from another source, so learning how to adapt material is a critical skill every serious screenwriter needs. Lists Emmy and Academy-Award winners of adapted material. This how-to is exceptional.

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