movie clips stills adaptation: text to screen
KS2 worksheets
KS3 activities
The following resources are recommended for teachers wishing to know more about adaptation:
articles
- French Philip, 12.4.98, ‘Filming the Classics’, Observer Review.
- Minghella Anthony, 19.4.98, ‘What do you call someone who borrows your novel and gives you a different one back? The film of the book,’ Observer Review, p4.
books
- BBC Education, 1994, ‘Screening Middlemarch; 19th century novel to 90’s television’, BBC Education, London.
- Bordwell David and Thompson Kristin, 2004, ‘Film art: an introduction’, MacGraw Hill Education.
- Cardwell Sarah, 2002, ‘Adaptation revisited: television and the classic novel’, Manchester University Press.
- Cartmell Deborah and Whelehan Imelda (eds.), 1999, ‘Adaptations: from text to screen, screen to text’, Routledge.
- Clark Vivienne, in Stewart Colin, Lavelle Marc, Kowaltzke Adam 2001,‘Media and meaning an introduction’, bfi publishing, London.
- Giddings Robert, Selby Keith, Wensley Chris, 1990, ‘Screening the novel: the theory and practice of literary dramatisation’, Macmillan.
- Maltby Richard and Craven Ian, 2003, ‘Hollywood Cinema’, Blackwell Publishers.
- Monaco James, 2000, ‘How to read a film’, OUP, USA.
- Reynolds, Peter, (ed.), 1993, ‘Novel images; literature in performance’, Routledge.
film poems
Go to http://www.lux.org.uk/filmpoems for material specifically about film poems.
films to view
- ‘Dal Yma Nawr, Still Here Now’, Marc Evans, 2003, UK.
- ‘Night Mail’, Harry Watt and Basil Wright, 1936, UK.
- ‘Lady Lazarus’, Sandra Lahire, 1991, UK.
To obtain copies of ‘Dal Yma Nawr’ / ‘Still Here Now’ on DVD or VHS, as recommended to accompany KS3 session 3, please contact:
Fiction Factory,
Chapter,
Market Rd,
Cardiff,
Wales
CF5 1QE
Tel. 02920 300320 email post@fictionfactoryfilms.com
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