Adaptation Texts


[ ] World War Z


World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks (novel)


The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks (graphic novel)


World War Z (2013) film

[ ] The Hunger Games Trilogy


The Hunger Games Trilogy

The Hunger Games (2012) film

[ ] Multi-genre author study





Franz Kafka


[ ] Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?


Blade Runner (1982) [film]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? vols. 1-6 [graphic novels]; Dust to Dust (prequel)

[ ] Howard Zinn


Howard Zinn on Democratic Education, Howard Zinn [nonfiction]


[ ] Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut [novel]


Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut [novel]

Mother Night [film]

[ ] Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley [autobiography]

Malcolm X (1992) [film]

Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography, Andrew Helfer, Randy DuBurke [graphic novels]

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, Manning Marable [biography]

[ ] True Blood

The Southern Vampire Mysteries, Charlaine Harris [novel]

True Blood [HBO series] 

True Blood [graphic novel] 

[ ] Sin City

Sin City [graphic novel]

Sin City (2005) [film]

[ ] Solaris

Solaris, Stanislaw Lem [novel]

Solaris (2002) [film]

[ ] Scott Pilgrim



[ ] 300

300 [graphic novel]

300 (2006) [film]

[ ] Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury [novel]

Fahrenheit 451 [graphic novel]

Fahrenheit 451 (1966) [film]

[ ] History of Violence

History of Violence [graphic novel]

History of Violence (2005) [film]

[ ] Batman

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller [graphic novel]

Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again, Frank Miller [graphic novel]

Batman: Year One, Frank Miller [graphic novel]

Batman Begins (2005) [film]

The Dark Knight (2008) [film]

[ ]  City of Glass

City of Glass, Paul Auster [novel]

City of Glass [graphic novel]

[ ] V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta, Alan Moore [graphic novel]

V for Vendetta (2006) [film]

[ ] Watchmen

Watchmen, Alan Moore [graphic novel]

Watchmen (2009) [film]

[ ] Ghost World

Ghost World, Daniel Clowes [graphic novel]

Ghost World (2001) [film]

[ ] Road to Perdition

Road to Perdition, Max Allan Collins [graphic novel]

Road to Perdition (2001) [film]

[ ] No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy [novel]

No Country for Old Men (2007) [film]

[ ] Revolutionary Road

Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates [novel]

Revolutionary Road (2008) [film]

[ ] Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro [novel]

Never Let Me Go (2010) [film]

[ ] The Reader

The Reader, Bernhard Schlink [novel]

The Reader (2008) [film]

[ ] Little Children

Little Children, Tom Perrotta [novel]

Little Children (2006) [film]

[ ] A Single Man

A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood [novel]

A Single Man (2009) [film]

[ ] Children of Men

The Children of Men, P. D. James [novel]

Children of Men (2006) [film]

[ ] The American

A Very Private Gentleman, Martin Booth [novel]

The American (2010) [film]