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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Literature and film : a guide to the theory and practice of film adaptation
Stam, Robert
Paper Book
Literature and Film is a cornucopia of vibrant essays that chart the history and confluence of literature and film. It explores in detail a wide and international spectrum of novels and adaptations, bringing together the very latest scholarship in the field.
Enser's filmed books and plays : a list of books and plays from which films have been made, 1928-2001
Baskin, Ellen.
Paper Book
The sixth edition of this compendium of film and television adaptations of books and plays includes several thousand new listings that cover the period from 1992 to December 2001. There are 8000 main entries, covering 70 years of film history, including some foreign language material.
Adaptations : from text to screen, screen to text
Cartmell, Deborah.
Ebook
Adaptations considers the theoretical and practical difficulties surrounding the translation of a text into film, and the reverse process; the novelisation of films. Through three sets of case studies, the contributors examine the key debates surrounding adaptations: whether screen versions of...
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,...
Comics and pop culture : adaptation from panel to frame
Grant, Barry Keith
Ebook
It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging the impact of comic book adaptations, especially considering the blockbuster success of recent superhero movies. Yet transmedial adaptations are part of an evolution that can be traced to the turn of the last century, when...
African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen
Dovey, Lindiwe
Ebook
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.
Paper Book
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...

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