Jakob Schreck

Date of Award

2025

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Myhill, Nova

Second Advisor

Bailey, Thomas

Area of Concentration

Theatre Dance and Performance Studies, Creative Writing

Abstract

This thesis addresses the process of adapting a short story into a feature-length film and what techniques that filmmakers use to translate a written work in a visual format. The adaptation essay features two case studies of short stories “The Sentinel” by Arthur C. Clarke and “Why Don’t You Dance?” By Raymond Carver and what directors Stanley Kubrick and Dan Rush are trying to accomplish with their adaptations of these stories into 2001: A Space Odyssey and Everything Must Go, going through what each director does with their adaptations and each of their approaches to them. The short story collection showcases three examples of short stories that I’ve worked on over the last year in three different genres. The screenplay adaptation takes one of my short stories in The Gator and is adapted into a short scene in a screenplay format to establish the conflict of the story as well as the setting through descriptions. The script treatment showcases what a theoretical film adaptation of The Gator could look like with a full breakdown of the plot and what the characters go through in the story.

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