Book-to-film adaptation

A film that reworks a previously published literary work, translating its characters, events, or ideas into cinematic form.

Screenplay: A written plan for a film’s dialogue, action, and scenes. It reshapes a book’s material into scenes that can be filmed.
Fidelity criticism: The evaluation of adaptations by how closely they follow their source works. It supplies the common standard that adaptation scholars challenge or refine.
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film): A 1939 musical fantasy film directed by Victor Fleming, adapted from L. Frank Baum’s novel. Its changes to Baum’s story show how a film can become distinct from its source.
Georges Méliès: A French filmmaker whose early films pioneered cinematic spectacle and fantasy. His 1902 film A Trip to the Moon adapted ideas from Jules Verne and H. G. Wells.
Book cover: The printed or digital exterior design of a book, often used for identification and promotion. Publishers commonly redesign covers to feature imagery from successful film adaptations.
Narrative structure: The arrangement of events and information in a story. Films often reorder or compress a book’s plot to create a workable screen narrative.
Creative license: The freedom to alter source material when creating a new work. Film adaptations often change plots, characters, or endings rather than reproduce them.
The Godfather (film): A 1972 crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, adapted from Mario Puzo’s novel. It demonstrates how a film adaptation can reshape a novel through performance and visual style.
A Trip to the Moon: A 1902 French science-fiction film directed by Georges Méliès. It illustrates early cinema’s use of literary and theatrical sources for imaginative films.
Transmedia storytelling: The development of a story across multiple media, with each medium contributing to a larger whole. Some adaptations extend a fictional world beyond the book and film themselves.

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