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ADAPTATIONS: From Short Story to Big Screen

CONTENTS

Short Cuts
"Jerry and Molly and Sam" by Raymond Carver

Blow-Up
"Blow-Up" by Julio Cortazar

A Face in the Crowd
"Your Arkansas Traveler" by Budd Schulberg

Rear Window
"It Had to be Murder" by Cornell Woolrich

2001: A Space Odyssey
"The Sentinel" by Arthur C. Clarke

AI: Artificial Intelligence
"Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss

Freaks
"Spurs" by Tod Robbins

The Fly
"The Fly" by George Langelaan

Re-Animator
"Herbert West--Reanimator: Six Shots by Moonlight" by H.P. Lovecraft

Stagecoach
"Stage to Lordsburg" by Ernest Haycox

Smoke Signals
"This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" by Sherman Alexie

American Splendor
"The Harvey Pekar Name Story" by Harvey Pekar

Ghost World
"Hubba Hubba" by Dan Clowes

All About Eve
"The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr

Meet John Doe
"A Reputation" by Richard Connell



Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
"Mr. Blandings Builds His Castle" by Eric Hodgins

The Wild One
"Cyclists' Raid" by Frank Rooney

Tomorrow
"Tomorrow" by William Faulkner

Bringing Up Baby
"Bringing Up Baby" by Hagar Wilde

The Last Time I Saw Paris
"Babylon, Revisited" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Swimmer
"The Swimmer" by John Cheever

The Fallen Idol
"A Basement Room" by Graham Greene

Memento
"Memento Mori" by Jonathon Nolan

My Friend Flicka
"My Friend Flicka" by Mary O'Hara

A Christmas Story
"Red Ryder Nails the Hammond Street Kid" by Jean Shepherd

Field of Dreams
"Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa" by W.P. Kinsella

Rashomon
"In a Grove" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Dark Eyes/The Lady with the Dog
"The Lady with the Pet Dog" by Anton Chekhov

Smooth Talk
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates

Smoke
"Auggie Wren's Christmas Story" by Paul Auster

Jesus' Son
"Emergency" by Denis Johnson

In the Bedroom
"Killings" by Andre Dubus

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Updated 5/7/05