ABSTRACT

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/

part I|55 pages

Introducing Adaptation

chapter 1|29 pages

Creative Issues

Where Do Ideas Come From?

chapter 2|17 pages

Career Issues

Writers’ and Producers’ Standpoints

chapter 3|7 pages

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Adaptation

part II|54 pages

Applying Screenplay Principles to Adaptation

chapter 4|6 pages

Plot

chapter 5|5 pages

Setting

chapter 6|6 pages

Characters and Character Relationships

chapter 7|5 pages

Dialogue

chapter 8|29 pages

Structure

Heroes and Heroines – Where Are We Going?

part III|12 pages

A Survival Guide to Adaptation

chapter 9|10 pages

The Process

part IV|18 pages

Renewing the Spirit in Myths and Fairy Tales

chapter 10|9 pages

Fairy Tale Factors

From Spindle to Kindle

chapter 11|7 pages

The Beasts

From Cocteau to Cable

part V|18 pages

Global Storytelling Revisited

chapter 12|10 pages

Stories without Borders

chapter 13|6 pages

Regional vs. International Perspectives

Universalizing Regional Stories

part VI|8 pages

Modern Perspectives on Romance

chapter 14|6 pages

Love and Romance Adaptations

part VII|29 pages

Bringing Up the Classics

chapter 16|11 pages

Chunhyang, Orpheus, and Other Myths

chapter 17|3 pages

Keeping It Literary in China

part VIII|22 pages

Embracing and Rethinking Structure

chapter 18|12 pages

Timing the Times

part IX|11 pages

Censorship

chapter 20|9 pages

Retelling, Limited

part X|10 pages

Future Adaptations

chapter 21|8 pages

Future Adaptations