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PN 98 - Intertextuality

PN 171 - Adaptation; Authorship

PN 1997.85 - Film Adaptation

PN 2189 .M32 - Stage to Television

PR 3093 - Shakespeare on Film

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Auteur theory (Motion pictures) Drama Adaptations Fairy tales Film adaptatons Fan fiction History and criticism Film Adaptations Historical films History and criticism Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Intertextuality Literature Adaptations	(Nationality) literature Film adaptations Example: American literature -- Film adaptations Motion pictures and literature Motion pictures and theater Motion picture audiences Motion picture authorship Music and literature Originality in literature Television Adaptations

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Helpful Books

A Theory of Adaptation, Linda Hutcheon, New York: Routledge (2013 E-Book)
Print 2nd edition (2013) at PN 171 .A33 H88 2013.
Adaptation and Appropriation, Dr. Julie Sanders, London New York: Routledge (2006) - PN 171 .A33 S26 2006
Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2007) - PN 1997.85 .C26 2007
Film Adaptation and Its Discontents : from Gone With the Wind to The Passion of the Christ, Thomas M. Leitch, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press (2007) - E-Book
Available in print at PN 1997.85 .L35 2007.
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