Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Half Title
3. Title Page
4. Copyright Page
5. Table of Contents
6. FOREWORD
7. PREFACE
8. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
9. PART I: INTRODUCING ADAPTATION
   1. Chapter 1 Creative Issues: Where Do Ideas Come From?
   2. Chapter 2 Career Issues: Writers’ and Producers’ Standpoints
   3. Chapter 3 The Ethics and Aesthetics of Adaptation
10. PART II: APPLYING SCREENPLAY PRINCIPLES TO ADAPTATION
    1. Chapter 4 Plot
    2. Chapter 5 Setting
    3. Chapter 6 Characters and Character Relationships
    4. Chapter 7 Dialogue
    5. Chapter 8 Structure: Heroes and Heroines - Where Are We Going?
11. PART III: A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO ADAPTATION
    1. Chapter 9 The Process
12. PART IV: RENEWING THE SPIRIT IN MYTHS AND FAIRY TALES
    1. Chapter 10 Fairy Tale Factors: From Spindle to Kindle
    2. Chapter 11 The Beasts: From Cocteau to Cable
13. PART V: GLOBAL STORYTELLING REVISITED
    1. Chapter 12 Stories without Borders
    2. Chapter 13 Regional vs. International Perspectives: Universalizing Regional Stories
14. PART VI: MODERN PERSPECTIVES ON ROMANCE
    1. Chapter 14 Love and Romance Adaptations
15. PART VII: BRINGING UP THE CLASSICS
    1. Chapter 15 From Ancient Greece to Hollywood and Nollywood
    2. Chapter 16 Chunhyang, Orpheus, and Other Myths
    3. Chapter 17 Keeping It Literary in China
16. PART VIII: EMBRACING AND RETHINKING STRUCTURE
    1. Chapter 18 Timing the Times
    2. Chapter 19 Alternative Focus Topics for the Story of Malcolm X
17. PART IX: CENSORSHIP
    1. Chapter 20 Retelling, Limited
18. PART X: FUTURE ADAPTATIONS
    1. Chapter 21 Future Adaptations
19. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
20. INDEX