%0 Journal Article
%T Adapting History and Literature into Movies
%A John Dean
%J American Studies Journal
%D 2009
%I American Studies Journal
%X This essay tries to offer an overview of adaptation, an initiation into this subject for the educated reader who is not a communications or film specialist. The essay will reference "The Social and Cultural Construction of Abraham Lincoln in U.S. Movies and on U.S. TV¡±¡ªbut mainly with an eye to the larger issue of cinematographic adaptation itself.
%K America
%K United States
%K US
%K literature
%K adaptation
%K history
%K culture
%K Hollywood
%K movies
%K films
%K television
%K image
%U http://www.asjournal.org/archive/53/168.html