LECTURES: Pleasures and Pitfalls of Film Adaptation @ IHouse, 2/1

Penn and NYU professors will gather to explore cinema's illustrious history of profiting off the creativity of others.

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LECTURES: Pleasures and Pitfalls of Film Adaptation @ IHouse, 2/1

POSTED: Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 11:00 AM

Filed Under: Events | Just Do It | Movies

With based-on-a-book Big Miracle and The Woman in Black hitting silver screen this weekend — and board-game blockbuster Battleship lurking ominously on the horizon — it seems clear Hollywood has run out of fresh ideas. Odds are you find that disconcerting, so here’s a comforting thought from the folks at the International House: Hollywood never had any originality to begin with. In a discussion titled “Pleasures and Pitfalls of Film Adaptation,” Penn and NYU professors will gather to explore cinema’s illustrious history of profiting off the creativity of others. At a time when adapted screenplays abound, these scholars hope to show that transferring material between media can be more of an art form than a simple copy-paste job. And if you can’t make it, rest assured; a movie version will likely be in theaters this December.

Wed., Feb. 1, 5 p.m., free, International House, 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org.

(michael.gold@citypaper.net) (@migold)

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