1st Edition
Screen Adaptation: Beyond the Basics Techniques for Adapting Books, Comics and Real-Life Stories into Screenplays
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Preface
SECTION ONE: BASIC PRACTICES
- Understanding Adaptation
- Fundamentals of Adaptation
- Adapting Jim Day’s "Karelia"
SECTION TWO: INTERMEDIATE PRACTICES
- Recognizing your Genre
- Strengthening your Emotional Center
- Utilizing your Characters’ Motivation and Dialogue
- Adapting Jo Weiss’ "The Pool"
SECTION THREE: ADVANCED PRACTICES
- Thematic Approaches
- Reshaping Structure
- Crafting and Honing Tension
- The Triangle of Knowledge
- Adapting Damion Armentrout’s "So the Young Enter the World"
References
Bio
Biography
Eric Williams’ screenplays have received the Best New Work award from the Writers Guild of America, an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the Award for Individual Excellence in Screenwriting from the Ohio Arts Council. He has adapted novels by Luis Urrea (Across the Wire), Bill Littlefield (The Prospect) and Guillermo Fadanelli (The Other Face of Rock Hudson). His latest projects include an adaptation of the anthology Voices From the Heartland into a thirteen-part television series. Eric received his MFA from Columbia University’s School of Film. He currently teaches at Ohio University, where he has received the University Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching.
You can learn more by visiting his website: www.WilliamsOnStory.com
"As a professional screenwriter and professor of film and media arts for the past 20 years, Eric Williams has been involved in the adaptation process many times over. Using his own personal experiences along with examples of well-known adapted works, Mr. Williams has crafted an invaluable guide to the screen adaptation process."
—Rob Levine, Grateful Films
