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The 30 pages that link to Film adaptation, each with the reason it gives.

• HollywoodRelated: Adaptation is a major route through which Hollywood develops recognizable properties.

• Literary adaptationBroader topic: Cinema turns written description and narration into images, sound, and performance.

• Broadway musicalRelated: Screen versions extend the reach of Broadway musicals while changing how they are presented.

• Dashiell HammettNarrower topic: Several celebrated adaptations carried Hammett’s stories into film and reshaped their cultural afterlife.

• Joseph L. MankiewiczRelated: His adaptations helped show how plays and literary works could be reshaped for cinema.

• Television adaptationRelated: Film adaptations share the source-to-screen process but usually use a different format.

• Kenneth BranaghNarrower topic: His Shakespeare films make choices about language, setting, editing, and performance inherent to adaptation.

• Tunde KelaniRelated: Kelani frequently builds films from Yoruba novels, plays, and oral narratives.

• The HeiressNarrower topic: The Heiress combines James’s novel with the Goetzes’ stage adaptation.

• JuliaNarrower topic: Julia reshapes a memoir chapter into a feature-length dramatic narrative.

• Baz LuhrmannNarrower topic: Several of his best-known films reinterpret novels, plays, or historical lives.

• To Kill a MockingbirdNarrower topic: The film is a prominent example of adapting a major novel for cinema.

• Glengarry Glen RossNarrower topic: The movie demonstrates how screen adaptations can alter a play’s scope and emphasis.

• John BoormanRelated: Deliverance and other projects show how Boorman reshaped literary and legendary source material for cinema.

• Thomas KeneallyNarrower topic: The novel’s screen version reshaped its title and public reach.

• Brokeback MountainNarrower topic: The movie translates the story’s narration into performance, images, and expanded scenes.

• John IrvingNarrower topic: Several major Irving novels became films, with Irving himself writing one acclaimed screenplay.

• June MathisRelated: Much of Mathis’s writing involved turning novels and plays into screen narratives.

• Lester James PeriesRelated: Peries repeatedly adapted literary works while reshaping them through image, setting, and performance.

• Arturo RipsteinRelated: Literary and historical sources provide Ripstein with frameworks he reshapes for the screen.

• Backrooms (feature film)Narrower topic: The project converts an online series and shared myth into a feature narrative.

• Frédéric DardNarrower topic: San-Antonio stories and characters have also been adapted for cinema.

• Graham SwiftNarrower topic: Last Orders became a feature film, carrying Swift’s narrative beyond the novel.

• HamnetRelated: Zhao translates O’Farrell’s novel into a feature film.

• Nathanael WestRelated: John Schlesinger adapted The Day of the Locust for film in 1975.

• Nevil ShuteRelated: Several Shute novels reached wider audiences through screen adaptations, especially On the Beach.

• Patrick SüskindNarrower topic: The adaptation of Perfume raises questions about representing scent through images and sound.

• Project Hail MaryNarrower topic: Project Hail Mary translates a novel’s inner narration and scientific explanations into audiovisual storytelling.

• Tomi AdeyemiRelated: A film adaptation of Children of Blood and Bone has been developed for a wider screen audience.

• Xu JingleiNarrower topic: Her directing includes reshaping both Chinese fiction and a European novella.