Film Adaptation and Its Discontents
Thomas M. Leitch
Published 2007
The latest adapted for screen books
These books have been made into films or television series. Read the story before you watch, or go back to the source after the credits roll to see what was changed and what was left out. The book is very often better. The newest come first.
Results
True to the Spirit Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity
Colin MacCabe
Published 2011
250 pages
The Medieval Motion Picture
Andrew James Johnston, Philipp Hinz
Published 2014
233 pages
The Fantastic Made Visible Essays on the Adaptation of Science Fiction and Fantasy from Page to Screen
Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Ace G. Pilkington
Published 2015
252 pages
Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust
Ben Maddow, Regina K. Fadiman, William Faulkner
Published 1978
329 pages
Literature and Film A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation
Alessandra Raengo
Published 2004
376 pages
The Silk Road of Adaptation Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures
Laurence Raw
Published 2013
223 pages
The Art of Adaptation
Ellery Queen
1976 · 2011 edition
256 pages
Fairy Tale and Film
S. Short
Published 2014
232 pages
H.G. Wells Six Scientific Romances Adapted for Film
Thomas C. Renzi
Published 2004
227 pages
Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the 'Twilight' Series
Anne Morey
2012 · 2016 edition
252 pages
Novel Images Literature in Performance
Peter Reynolds
Published 1993
208 pages
Four Complete Novels
James M. Cain, James Mallahan Cain
Published 1988
651 pages
Adaptation Studies and Learning
Laurence Raw, Tony Gurr
Published 2013
187 pages
From Film Adaptation to Post-Celluloid Adaptation Rethinking the Transition of Popular Narratives and Characters across Old and New Media
Costas Constandinides
2010 · 2012 edition
176 pages
Adapting Graham Greene
Richard J. Hand, Andrew Purssell
Published 2014
160 pages
Conrad and Cinema The Art of Adaptation
Gene D. Phillips
Published 1997
218 pages
Anime and the Art of Adaptation Eight Famous Works from Page to Screen
Dani Cavallaro
2010 · 2014 edition
220 pages
Adaptation, Authorship, and Contemporary Women Filmmakers
S. Cobb
2014 · 2015 edition
167 pages
Strange Days The Official Movie Adaptation
Dan Chichester, Mike McKone
Published 1996
48 pages
The Medieval Motion Picture The Politics of Adaptation
A. Johnston, M. Rouse
Published 2014
233 pages
Emma Adapted Jane Austen's Heroine from Book to Film
Marc Di Paolo
Published 2007
190 pages
Maximum Movies--pulp Fictions Film Culture and the Worlds of Samuel Fuller, Mickey Spillane, and Jim Thompson
Peter Stanfield
Published 2011
227 pages
Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation Literature, Film, and the Arts
Pascal Nicklas, Oliver Lindner
Published 2012
277 pages