Admission

Admission
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Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages : 408
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ISBN-10 : 9780446557634
ISBN-13 : 0446557633
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Admission by : Jean Hanff Korelitz

From the New York Times bestselling author of You Should Have Known (adapted as The Undoing on HBO), comes a page-turner about a college admissions officer with a secret—now a major motion picture starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd. For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and sometimes punishing) career as a Princeton University admissions officer and her dependable domestic life. Her reluctance to confront the truth is suddenly overwhelmed by the resurfacing of a life-altering decision, and Portia is faced with an extraordinary test. Just as thousands of the nation's brightest students await her decision regarding their academic admission, so too must Portia decide whether to make her own ultimate admission. Admission is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the complex college admissions process and an emotional examination of what happens when the secrets of the past shake a woman's life to its core.

Novels Into Film

Novels Into Film
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 0816039615
ISBN-13 : 9780816039616
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Novels Into Film by : John C. Tibbetts

Spanning comedy, drama, film noir, science fiction, westerns, action adventure, suspense and children's literature, this book offers a detailed survey of adaptations of film adaptations of novels.

Novels Into Film

Novels Into Film
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 258
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Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis Novels Into Film by : George Bluestone

Novelization

Novelization
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0814213677
ISBN-13 : 9780814213674
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Novelization by : Jan Baetens

Examines how films are adapted into novels as a way to rethink the adaptation paradigm of film and literary studies.

The Descendants

The Descendants
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Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780812982954
ISBN-13 : 0812982959
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis The Descendants by : Kaui Hart Hemmings

Now a major motion picture starring George Clooney and directed by Alexander Payne Fortunes have changed for the King family, descendants of Hawaiian royalty and one of the state’s largest landowners. Matthew King’s daughters—Scottie, a feisty ten-year-old, and Alex, a seventeen-year-old recovering drug addict—are out of control, and their charismatic, thrill-seeking mother, Joanie, lies in a coma after a boat-racing accident. She will soon be taken off life support. As Matt gathers his wife’s friends and family to say their final goodbyes, a difficult situation is made worse by the sudden discovery that there’s one person who hasn’t been told: the man with whom Joanie had been having an affair. Forced to examine what they owe not only to the living but to the dead, Matt, Scottie, and Alex take to the road to find Joanie’s lover, on a memorable journey that leads to unforeseen humor, growth, and profound revelations.

Novels Into Film: Adaptations and Interpretation (Volume Two)

Novels Into Film: Adaptations and Interpretation (Volume Two)
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : 1637000367
ISBN-13 : 9781637000366
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Novels Into Film: Adaptations and Interpretation (Volume Two) by : Salem Press

Novels into film offers a unique look at how a story makes its way from the printed page to the screen.

The Film Novelist

The Film Novelist
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9781441190680
ISBN-13 : 1441190686
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis The Film Novelist by : Dennis J. Packard

The Film Novelist is the first primer on writing film novels- whether you are a beginning novelist, a seasoned writer wanting to cross over into script/novel writing, or a creative writing teacher looking for proven ways to launch new writers. So, what is the difference between a screenplay and a film novel? Screenplays indicate solely what the audience is to see or hear on screen. Film novels are short, and take about as long to read as a feature film takes to watch. The description, dialogue, and narration of a film novel can simply be lifted out and used as the description, dialogue, and voice-over narration for a script. The author has devised a fifteen week program starting from a one-sentence pitch to the novel itself, which includes filming a scene from your script/novel. He grounds the discussion of early film novels, like The Maltese Falcon, Of Mice and Men, and The Misfits, to provide historical and theoretical background while detailing the practical, sequential approach for completing a short novel and script.

Man in the Dark

Man in the Dark
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 164
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ISBN-10 : 9780312356583
ISBN-13 : 0312356587
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Man in the Dark by : Paul Auster

"I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness." So begins Paul Auster's brilliant, devastating tale about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget ? his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall, and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union, and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill's story grows increasingly intense, and what he is so desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. Joined in the early hours by his granddaughter, he gradually opens up to her and recounts the story of his marriage. After she falls asleep, he at last finds the courage to revisit the trauma of Titus's death. Passionate and shocking, Man in the Dark is a story of our moment, an audiobook that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence.

Fitzgerald and the Influence of Film

Fitzgerald and the Influence of Film
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 205
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ISBN-10 : 9780786431342
ISBN-13 : 0786431342
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Fitzgerald and the Influence of Film by : Gautam Kundu

This work explores the many ways in which the developing film industry of the early twentieth century influenced the writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald, focusing specifically on his novels This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, and the incomplete The Last Tycoon. The Beautiful and the Damned is also discussed briefly. Early chapters examine Fitzgerald's literary adaptation of visual film techniques (pans, freeze frames, slow motion) and aural cinematic concepts (sound effects, diegetic sound) within his most popular novels. The final chapter summarizes the effect such techniques had in augmenting and defining Fitzgerald's unique literary style.

Roger Ebert's Book of Film

Roger Ebert's Book of Film
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Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages : 793
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ISBN-10 : 0393040003
ISBN-13 : 9780393040005
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Roger Ebert's Book of Film by : Roger Ebert

The Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic assembles and introduces more than one hundred essays and articles about film, with entries by and about movie stars, famous directors, industry executives, and critics. Tour.