Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen - ed. Stephanie Harrison Audiobook

Written by ed. Stephanie Harrison
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Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen
Edited by Stephanie Harrison

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Total # of Tracks: 49
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Anthology #180
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I added the comic pages for Ghost World and The Harvey Pekar Name Story
As a side note: I usually don’t stray out of speculative fiction, so every now and then when I get a book like this that isn’t in the ISFDB it’s a real pain in the ass to get reliable author/story/publication year info. I always hope I didn’t make some obvious mistake.
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Book Description

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 relative newcomers such as Chris Eyre and Christopher Nolan, Adaptations offers insight into the process of turning a short story into a screenplay, one that, when successful, doesn’t take drastic liberties with the text upon which it is based, but doesn’t mirror its source material too closely either. The stories and movies featured in Adaptations include:
•Philip K. Dick’s “The Minority Report,” which became the 2002 blockbuster directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise
•“The Harvey Pekar Name Story” by reclusive graphic artist Harvey Pekar, whose life was the inspiration for American Splendor, winner of the 2003 Sundance Grand Jury Prize
•Hagar Wilde’s “Bringing Up Baby,” the basis of the classic film Bringing Up Baby, anthologized here for the first time ever
•“The Swimmer” by John Cheever, an example of a highly regarded story that many feared might prove unadaptable
•The predecessor to the beloved holiday classic A Christmas Story, “Red Ryder Nails the Hammond Kid” by Jean Shepherd
Whether you’re a fiction reader or a film buff, Adaptations is your behind-the-scenes look at the sometimes difficult, sometimes brilliantly successful process from the printed page to the big screen. *Starred Review* Avid readers and movie buffs alike will relish Harrison’s thought-provoking opus about the process of adapting short stories into screenplays. From science fiction to social satire, this captivating collection of 35 tales embraces literary greats like Chekhov and Cheever and memorable writings long out of print (such as Frank Rooney’s “Cyclists’ Raid,” which became the 1953 Brando classic The Wild One). Harrison evotes a chapter to every imaginable genre, prefacing each with quotes and anecdotes from writers, directors, and actors associated with the creative endeavors selected. Native American author Sherman Alexie, whose short stories inspired the 1998 cult hit, Smoke Signals, speaks of wrestling with the old stereotypes of “the noble and the ignoble savage.” Stanley Kubrick’s cohorts compare collaborations with the director to “being swallowed up by a cold and intelligent creature with many tentacles.” Actor Vincent Price’s daughter recalls how her father and Herbert Marshall “laughed until they cried” while filming the “Help me!” scene in 1958’s The Fly. Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock, and John Ford are among the cast of cinematic personalities in this tribute to the inspiration and perspiration required to turn fiction into film.

Stories in this collection:

01) Introduction by Stephanie Harrison
Part 01: The Directors: Translators, Magicians, Collaborators, and Thieves
02) Jerry and Molly and Sam by Raymond Carver
03) Blow-Up by Julio Cortazar
04) Your Arkansas Traveler by Budd Schulberg
05) It Had to be Murder by Cornell Woolrich
Part 02: Science Fiction
06) The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke
07) Super-Toys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss
08) The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick
Part 03: Horror, Cue the Gore
09) Spurs by Tod Robbins
10) The Fly by George Langelaan
11) Herbert West—Reanimator: Six Shots by Moonlight by H. P. Lovecraft
Part 04: Westerns: “Tonto” Means “Fool” in Spanish
12) Stage to Lordsburg by Ernest Haycox
13) A Man Called Horse by Dorothy M. Johnson
14) This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona by Sherman Alexie
Part 05: Graphic Stories: Flying Under the Radar
15) The Harvey Pekar Name Story by Harvey Pekar
16) Ghost World—Chapter 5: “Hubba Hubba” by Dan Clowes
Part 06: Five All-But-Lost Stories
17) The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr
18) A Reputation by Richard Connell
19) Mr. Blandings Builds His Castle by Eric Hodgins
20) Cyclists’ Raid by Frank Rooney
21) Tomorrow by William Faulkner
Part 07: The Good, the Bad and the Unadaptable
22) Bringing Up Baby by Hagar Wilde
23) Babylon, Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
24) The Swimmer by John Cheever
Part 08: Suspense = Style?
25) The Killers by Ernest Hemingway
26) The Basement Room by Graham Greene
27) Memento Mori by Jonathon Nolan
Part 09: Family Film; Nostalgia for an Unlived Past
28) Red Ryder Nails the Hammond Kid by Jean Shepherd
29) My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara
30) Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa by W. P. Kinsella
Part 10: World Films: Now You See Them, Now You Don’t
31) In a Grove by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
32) The Lady with the Pet Dog by Anton Chekhov
33) Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates
34) Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story by Paul Auster
35) Emergency by Denis Johnson
36) Killings by Andre Dubus