The 2015 Literary Fauxscars: The Results are In!
Every year, the staff of Literary Traveler has a lot of fun watching and discussing the year’s best (and not-so-great) literary adaptations. From contemporary fiction…
Tag: Non-Fiction Adaptation
Current Events and the Big Screen: ‘Rosewater’ and the Arab Spring
By Haley Houseman. Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show encourages us to take our current events with both seriousness and levity, but the crux of his directorial…
‘American Sniper’ and the Problem of Adapting Memoir
By Antoinette Weil As American Sniper settles into the throne of top-grossing war movie of all time, the controversy surrounding the film has yet to cease. Cries…
The Theory of Everything: An Imperfect Romance of Love and Science
By Alex Nicoll The Theory of Everything begins with a scene of Stephen Hawking riding a bicycle. This image is all foreshadowing: of Stephen’s impending…