screen adaptation
Book made cinematic
A screen adaptation is a film or television version of a work originally created in another medium—typically a novel, play, stage musical, or comic book.
The term emphasizes the transformation required: The screen adaptation cut several subplots from the novel.
Adaptations range from faithful recreations to loose interpretations that retain only basic elements of the source material.
- screenwriterAuthor of film scripts
- narrative structureHow a tale unfolds
- storyboardingSequencing shots through drawings
- novelNew and unusual
- playRecreation or staged drama
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- dramaTV drama, acting, television drama, drama school, playwright
- dramatizationsenactment, reenactment, recreation, stage play, theatrical production
- adaptationsfilm adaptations, TV adaptations, stage adaptations, novel adaptations, dramatization
- Tolstoy adaptationsWar and Peace, Anna Karenina, Resurrection, Levin, Natasha
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Original work adapted from
source text · original text · original screenplay · original script · original film
screen adaptationnovelization
Adapting films into books
tie-in novel · book adaptation · stage adaptation · graphic novel adaptation
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