From Page to Screen

Take a closer look at the adaptation of literary works from printed page to the movie screen, with essential academic titles on film adaptation and global cinema selected by RCL editors. Resources for College Libraries (RCL) features 90,000+ core titles for academic libraries, curated by Choice/ACRL subject specialists and available at rclweb.net.

Updated July 1, 2026
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Enser's filmed books and plays : a list of books and plays from which films have been made, 1928-1991
Baskin, Ellen.
Paper Book
s Previous editions of this comprehensive compendium of motion picture and television adaptations of books and plays are cited in Sheehy and Walford. Covering more than 60 years, and with far wider coverage of US, Canadian, Australian, and foreign language material, there are some 6,000 listings in...
The ancient world in the cinema
Solomon, Jon
Paper Book
This entertaining and useful book provides a comprehensive survey of films about the ancient world, from The Last Days of Pompeii to Gladiator. Jon Solomon catalogues, describes, and evaluates films set in ancient Greece and Rome, films about Greek and Roman history and mythology,...
African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen
Dovey, Lindiwe.
Paper Book
Analyzing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking-one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique of physical and...
Adapted for the Screen : The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Fiction and Film
Deppman, Hsiu-Chuang
Ebook
Contemporary Chinese films are popular with audiences worldwide, but a key reason for their success has gone unnoticed: many of the films are adapted from brilliant literary works. This book is the first to put these landmark films in the context of their literary origins and explore how the best...
Shakespeare and film : a Norton guide
Crowl, Samuel.
Paper Book
The book also includes a glossary of film and critical terminology as well as annotated selected bibliographies and filmographies.

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