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Cinematic and Theatre Arts Research Guide: CINE 475: Film Adaptation

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Introduction

Below are selected resources for CINE 475: Film Adaptation. Click on the titles of the books or films listed to check availability at the library.

Selected Reading

The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
ISBN: 9780547952017
Publication Date: 2012-02-15
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
ISBN: 9780395489338
Publication Date: 1988-03-03
The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
ISBN: 9780358380252
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
Jaws by Peter Benchley
ISBN: 9780345544148
Publication Date: 2013-08-06
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
ISBN: 9781613835050
Publication Date: 2012-10-09
Dune by Frank Herbert
ISBN: 9780593099322
Publication Date: 2019-10-01
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 9780375706677
Publication Date: 2006-07-11
True Grit by Charles Portis; Donna Tartt (Afterword by)
ISBN: 9781590204597
Publication Date: 2010-11-05
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
ISBN: 9798572493214
Publication Date: 2020-11-27
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, Book 1) by J. K. Rowling; Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781338878929
Publication Date: 2023-05-02
The Martian by Andy Weir
ISBN: 9780553418026
Publication Date: 2014-10-28
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
ISBN: 9781476738024
Publication Date: 2015-05-05
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Movie Tie-In Edition by Barbara Robinson
ISBN: 9780063416475
Publication Date: 2024-10-01
Dracula by Bram Stoker
ISBN: 9798600002784
Publication Date: 2020-01-17
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One) by Suzanne Collins
ISBN: 9780439023528
Publication Date: 2010-07-01
The Firm by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780440245926
Publication Date: 2009-08-25
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
ISBN: 9781512308051
Publication Date: 2015-05-21

Selected Viewing

Casablanca, dir. Michael Curtiz
Rear Window, dir. Alfred Hitchcock
The Shawshank Redemption, dir. Frank Darabont
Jaws, dir. Peter Benchley
The Lord of the Rings series, dir. Peter Jackson
Jurassic Park, dir. Steven Spielberg
True Grit, dir. Coen Brothers; earlier adaptation dir. Henry Hathaway
Harry Potter series, dir. Chris Columbus; Alfonso Cuarón; Mike Newell; David Yates
The Martian, dir. Ridley Scott
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, dir. F. W. Murnau
The Hunger Games series, dir. Gary Ross; Francis Lawrence
Frankenstein, dir. James Whale

Course Readings

How to Adapt Anything into a Screenplay by Richard Krevolin
ISBN: 9780471225454
Publication Date: 2003-03-13

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