The Art of Screen Adaptation
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The Art of Screen Adaptation

Alistair Owen

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The Art of Screen Adaptation

Alistair Owen

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About This Book

'If you decide to adapt a classic or much-loved book, your working maxim should be, 'How will it work best as a film?' However faithful it is to the original, if it's not interesting onscreen then you've failed.' - William Boyd in Story and Character: Interviews with British Screenwriters

Hollywood. Netflix. Amazon. BBC. Producers and audiences are hungrier than ever for stories, and a lot of those stories begin life as a book - but how exactly do you transfer a story from the page to the screen? Do adaptations use the same creative gears as original screenplays? Does a true story give a project more weight than a fictional one? Is it helpful to have the original author's input on the script? And how much pressure is the screenwriter under, knowing they won't be able to please everyone with the finished product?

Alistair Owen puts all these questions and many more to some of the top names in screenwriting, including Hossein Amini (Drive), Jeremy Brock (The Last King of Scotland), Moira Buffini (Jane Eyre), Lucinda Coxon (The Danish Girl), Andrew Davies (War & Peace), Christopher Hampton (Atonement), David Hare (The Hours), Olivia Hetreed (Girl with a Pearl Earring), Nick Hornby (An Education), Deborah Moggach (Pride & Prejudice), David Nicholls (Patrick Melrose) and Sarah Phelps (And Then There Were None).

Exploring fiction and nonfiction projects, contemporary and classic books, films and TV series, The Art of Screen Adaptation reveals the challenges and pleasures of reimagining stories for cinema and television, and provides a frank and fascinating masterclass with the writers who have done it - and have the awards and acclaim to show for it.

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Praise for Alistair Owen

'A fascinating, insightful collection' - Independent on Sunday on Story and Character

'Owen's thorough research and penetrating questions are what make Story and Character... the conversation is hilarious as well as informative, and budding screenwriters should pay close attention to extraordinary nuggets' - Guardian on Story and Character

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Publisher
Creative Essentials
Year
2020
ISBN
9780857302281
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film Screenwriting

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    Citation styles for The Art of Screen Adaptation

    APA 6 Citation

    Owen, A. (2020). The Art of Screen Adaptation ([edition missing]). Oldcastle Books. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1707763/the-art-of-screen-adaptation-pdf (Original work published 2020)

    Chicago Citation

    Owen, Alistair. (2020) 2020. The Art of Screen Adaptation. [Edition missing]. Oldcastle Books. https://www.perlego.com/book/1707763/the-art-of-screen-adaptation-pdf.

    Harvard Citation

    Owen, A. (2020) The Art of Screen Adaptation. [edition missing]. Oldcastle Books. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1707763/the-art-of-screen-adaptation-pdf (Accessed: 25 September 2021).

    MLA 7 Citation

    Owen, Alistair. The Art of Screen Adaptation. [edition missing]. Oldcastle Books, 2020. Web. 25 Sept. 2021.