Adapting Literature

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 07.01.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Objectives
  2. Introduction
  3. Rationale
  4. Background
  5. Strategies
  6. Lesson Plans
  7. New Mexico State Content Standards for Language Arts 8th grade
  8. Notes
  9. Annotated Bibliography
  10. Annotated Student Bibliography
  11. Mediaography

War of the Worlds-Multimedia Adaptations

Claudia L. Miller

Published September 2007

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Annotated Bibliography

Boretto, Alfred. H.G. Wells, Author in Agony. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972 .

The book discusses lesser known facets of the science fiction writer's life.

Callow, Simon. Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu. Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd., 1995.

Achieving great success involved a good deal of agony for the famous actor.

Cantril, Hadley. The Invasion From Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1947.

Cantril scientifically analyses the reaction of Americans to the Welles radio play.

Corrigan, Timothy, and White, Patricia. The Film Experience. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. 2004.

This is your quintessential guide to studying film.

Gertner, Richard, and Quigley, Martin. Films in America 1929-1969. New York: Goldman Press, 1970.

Forty years of rapid progress in the film industry are explored.

MacKenzie, Norman and Jeanne. H.G. Wells: a Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1973.

This is required reading for those who want to know the man inside and out.

Ray, Gordon N. H.G.Wells and Rebecca West. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1914.

This lesser known relationship is studied.

Thompson, Kristin. Storytelling in the New Hollywood. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1999.

There is good insider information here.

Warren, Bill. Keep Watching the Skies: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties. Jefferson and London: McFarland. 1986.

The book has a short section on the 1953 film.

Wells, H.G. Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain. New York: The Macmillian Company. 1934.

Wells writes truthfully about himself with humor.

Wells, H.G. The New Machiavelli. New York: Duffield and Company, 1914.

Wells compares himself to Machiavelli scientifically and in outlook.

Yuknavitch, Lidia. Real to Reel. Normal: FC2. 2003.

This book has nothing to do with film; however, I liked the introduction.

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