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Adaptations From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films

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ISBN-10: 1400053145

ISBN-13: 9781400053148

Edition: 2005

Authors: Stephanie Harrison

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An Eclectic Collection of Fiction That Inspired Film Memento, All About Eve, Rear Window, Rashomon, and 2001: A Space Odyssey are all well-known and much-loved movies, but what is perhaps a lesser-known fact is that all of them began their lives as short stories. Adaptations gathers together 35 pieces that have been the basis for films, many from giants of American literature (Hemingway, Fitzgerald) and many that have not been in print for decades (the stories that inspired Bringing Up Baby, Meet John Doe, and All About Eve). Categorized by genre, and featuring movies by master directors such as Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Frank Capra, and John Ford, as well as…    
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Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/26/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.13" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 1.342

The Directors: Translators, Magicians, Collaborators and Thieves
“Jerry and Molly and Sam”
“Blow-Up”
“Your Arkansas Traveler”
Science Fiction: Kubrick and Spielberg, Spielberg and Kubrick
“The Sentinel”
“Super-Toys Last All Summer Long”
“The Minority Report”
The Minority Report (Spielberg, 2002, DVD)
Horror: Cue the Gore
“Spurs”
“Herbert West–Reanimator: Six Shots by Midnight”
Westerns: Tonto Means Fool in Spanish
“Stage to Lordsburg”
“A Man Called Horse”
“This is what it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”
Graphic Stories: Flying Under the Radar
“The Harvey Pekar Name Story”
“Hubba Hubba”
Five All-But-Lost Stories
“The Wisdom of Eve”
“A Reputation”
“Mr. Blandings Builds His Castle”
“Cyclists’ Raid”
“Tomorrow”
The Good, the Bad, and the Unadaptable
“Bringing Up Baby”
“Babylon, Revisited”
“The Swimmer”
Suspense = Style
“The Killers”
“The Basement Room”
“Memento Mori”
Classic Family Fare
“My Friend Flicka”
“Red Ryder Nails the Hammond Kid”
“Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa”
International Cinema
“In a Grove”
The Background
Overview of complementary therapies in cancer care
Health service planning issues: the UK perspective
A personal view
Acupuncture
The role of nutrition
Music therapy
Professional Settings And Personal Experience
Heal thyself
Complementary therapies in palliative care
Providing complementary therapies within a cancer