ST303 Swamp Thing on Screen: Film, Television and Adaptation
Why the screen resists
Five adaptations, one unmade film, and the question of whether the resistance is in the character, the comic, or the industry.
Reading for this lesson
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Required A Theory of Adaptation Linda Hutcheon, with Siobhan O'Flynn (second edition) the conclusion
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Recommended The Saga of the Swamp Thing #34: "Rite of Spring" Alan Moore (writer), Stephen Bissette and John Totleben (art) the vision pages
The sequence no adaptation has attempted.