Screen Adaptation: A Scriptwriting Handbook

By Kenneth Portnoy

This book shows how to determine which events in a story or which characters in a novel are most valuable in developing a dramatic portrayal for the screen. It employs many exercises which explain why writers make specific changes from original source to adapted scripts. Examines the challenge that screenwriters face when adapting novels, plays or short stories for the screen.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0240800958
• ISBN13: 9780240800950
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Focal Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Life line to save time

As a professional screenwriter paid to adapt two novels in the past year, I would have saved copious hours if only I'd first read this book. I give it my highest recommendation wishing someone had alerted me ealier to its resourcefullness and wise insight.