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Adaptation for Screenwriters

By Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar and Dr. John Marland
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Adaptation for Screenwriters is a practical guide that equips writers with the critical and creative skills needed to transform stories from page to screen. It covers how to extract the 'inner film' from novels and short stories, convert prose into compelling visual drama, navigate the challenges of different media languages, and make strategic technical and interpretive decisions. The book also guides readers through drafting and formatting scripts for professional submission, using examples from classics, contemporary novels, genre fiction, and biographical works. It explores re-telling and updating stories, including appropriations, sequels, reboots, and adaptations into graphic fiction and video games.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book is ideal for aspiring and professional screenwriters interested in adapting literary works or existing stories into screenplays, as well as educators seeking a step-by-step reference on adaptation techniques.

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Develop the critical and creative skills to ‘translate’ a story from page to screen with this step-by-step guide to the process of screen adaptation. You'll learn to:

  • interrogate a novel or short story to release its ‘inner film’
  • convert fictional prose into visual drama
  • overcome the obstacles presented by different media ‘languages’
  • approach key strategic decisions - both technical and interpretive
  • draft and re-draft your plot, characters, and dialogue
  • professionally format and submit your finished script

In addition to examples taken from literary classics, contemporary novels, genre fiction, short stories, and biographical material, Marland and Edgar embrace the wider phenomenon of re-telling and updating existing stories. This includes the ‘appropriation’ of popular figures, inter-film adaptation (sequels and ‘reboots’), and development into other visual forms, including graphic fiction and video games.

Whether you are producing a faithful adaptation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, or planning to pair up the crime-fighting duo of Sherlock Holmes and Batman, Adaptation for Screenwriters will be your guide.

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Simon Passmore, Senior Lecturer in Film at Westminster School of Arts, praises the authors for presenting adaptation as the core of screenwriting and providing a practical framework for writers to follow.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350036673

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 November 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Illustration: 45 illus

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 288

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About the Author

Robert Edgar is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in the School of Humanities, Religion and Philosophy at York St John University, UK, with research interests and publications in screenwriting, prose fiction, radio drama, popular music memoir , the practice of film production, short film production and distribution, narratology and the theory and practice of comedy.

John Marland is a Senior Lecturer in Literature Studies at York St John University, UK, with twenty years of experience using adaptation as an educational tool across a range of the arts and humanities subjects including Literature, Creative Writing and Film & TV Production.

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