It’s no longer enough to focus on Hollywood with a few art films and Academy Award-winners for Best Foreign Film thrown into the mix. Bollywood in India and Nollywood in Nigeria make far more films each year than Hollywood, and many other countries, especially Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Iran, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Senegal, and the UK, also make films and television programs of international renown. Several factors can contribute towards making an adaptation international:
• its literary sources, whether a Peruvian-based novel by the Nobel Prize-winner Mario Vargas Llosa, reset in New Orleans, or a novel by Naguib Mafouz, set in Cairo, Egypt, that’s reset in Mexico City as a film; ...
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