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FROM: Theyer Hillary <[removed]@TORRNET.COM>
REC'D: 12/18/00, 7:31 PM

Has anyone done a program where the group reads the same book then watches a
movie and discusses the adaptation? We would like to try it, but would love
to hear about successes (or failures) of this type of program. Our local
AAUW us doing a movie discussion but asking each member to rent and watch
the movie on their own, we were considering showing the movie in the library
to the group. Also, we would like to have it be a discussion of the book
adaptation into a movie. Is it too long if we watch a two hour movie then
do an hour discussion, even with break and refreshments included?

Any experience is welcome, please share.
Thanks again!
Hillary Theyer

FROM: "Carl Heffington" <[removed]@lmxac.org>
REC'D: 12/19/00, 7:36 AM

Occasionally our book group will view a movie at the library after we have
read the book. We have pizza and drinks and meet at a different time. The
group likes it.
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> Has anyone done a program where the group reads the same book then watches
a
> movie and discusses the adaptation? We would like to try it, but would
love
> to hear about successes (or failures) of this type of program. Our local
> AAUW us doing a movie discussion but asking each member to rent and watch
> the movie on their own, we were considering showing the movie in the
library
> to the group. Also, we would like to have it be a discussion of the book
> adaptation into a movie. Is it too long if we watch a two hour movie then
> do an hour discussion, even with break and refreshments included?
>
> Any experience is welcome, please share.
> Thanks again!
> Hillary Theyer
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: "Kelly Currie" <[removed]@carlnet.org>
REC'D: 12/19/00, 8:03 AM

We looked into this but discovered that you must purchase performance rights
in order to be able to legally show the film in a public place, even if you
aren't charging the public an admission. The performance rights can be
pretty steep, especially for a one-time shot. There are companies that
represent groups of film companies so you can buy blanket performance
rights, but we couldn't afford it.

Kelly Currie
Delphi Public Library

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From: Theyer Hillary <[removed]@TORRNET.COM>
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Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 8:25 PM
Subject: movie/book discussion programs


> Has anyone done a program where the group reads the same book then watches
a
> movie and discusses the adaptation? We would like to try it, but would
love
> to hear about successes (or failures) of this type of program. Our local
> AAUW us doing a movie discussion but asking each member to rent and watch
> the movie on their own, we were considering showing the movie in the
library
> to the group. Also, we would like to have it be a discussion of the book
> adaptation into a movie. Is it too long if we watch a two hour movie then
> do an hour discussion, even with break and refreshments included?
>
> Any experience is welcome, please share.
> Thanks again!
> Hillary Theyer
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
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>

FROM: "Joy Tofteland" <[removed]@ankeny.k12.ia.us>
REC'D: 12/19/00, 8:42 AM

We have done this several times. It works very well. There is danger that
some of the participants don't read the book, but just come to see the
movie. Books we have read, discussed, and viewed include The English
Patient, Tess of the d'Urbervilles (several didn't make it through this one
and it turned into a discussion of the movie), The Joy Luck Club, and one by
Margaret Atwood whose title escapes me at the moment. Sometimes the movie
makes things more clear, especially in the English Patient. By reading the
book first, readers comment on whether or not the director lived up to the
author's intent. Watching the movie first does not work as well because
people talk about the characters as they are portrayed in the movie (they
already have a voice).

Joy Tofteland
Kirkendall Public Library
Ankeny, IA

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> Has anyone done a program where the group reads the same book then watches
a
> movie and discusses the adaptation? We would like to try it, but would
love
> to hear about successes (or failures) of this type of program. Our local
> AAUW us doing a movie discussion but asking each member to rent and watch
> the movie on their own, we were considering showing the movie in the
library
> to the group. Also, we would like to have it be a discussion of the book
> adaptation into a movie. Is it too long if we watch a two hour movie then
> do an hour discussion, even with break and refreshments included?
>
> Any experience is welcome, please share.
> Thanks again!
> Hillary Theyer
>
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FROM: "Carl Heffington" <[removed]@lmxac.org>
REC'D: 12/19/00, 9:37 AM

You might want to check into the showing of films as an educational venue.
At one time this was allowed. Also, the films we show are not open to the
public but only to our group.
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From: Kelly Currie <[removed]@carlnet.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: movie/book discussion programs


> We looked into this but discovered that you must purchase performance
rights
> in order to be able to legally show the film in a public place, even if
you
> aren't charging the public an admission. The performance rights can be
> pretty steep, especially for a one-time shot. There are companies that
> represent groups of film companies so you can buy blanket performance
> rights, but we couldn't afford it.
>
> Kelly Currie
> Delphi Public Library
>
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> From: Theyer Hillary <[removed]@TORRNET.COM>
> To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 8:25 PM
> Subject: movie/book discussion programs
>
>
> > Has anyone done a program where the group reads the same book then
watches
> a
> > movie and discusses the adaptation? We would like to try it, but would
> love
> > to hear about successes (or failures) of this type of program. Our
local
> > AAUW us doing a movie discussion but asking each member to rent and
watch
> > the movie on their own, we were considering showing the movie in the
> library
> > to the group. Also, we would like to have it be a discussion of the
book
> > adaptation into a movie. Is it too long if we watch a two hour movie
then
> > do an hour discussion, even with break and refreshments included?
> >
> > Any experience is welcome, please share.
> > Thanks again!
> > Hillary Theyer
> >
> > ......................................................................
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FROM: "christine downs" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 12/19/00, 10:20 AM

We have been considering the same thing, but have not been able to figure
out the logistics. Maybe with help we can figure it out!

Christine Kreger
Arapahoe Library District


>From: Theyer Hillary <[removed]@TORRNET.COM>
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>Subject: movie/book discussion programs
>Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:25:37 -0800
>
>Has anyone done a program where the group reads the same book then watches
>a
>movie and discusses the adaptation? We would like to try it, but would
>love
>to hear about successes (or failures) of this type of program. Our local
>AAUW us doing a movie discussion but asking each member to rent and watch
>the movie on their own, we were considering showing the movie in the
>library
>to the group. Also, we would like to have it be a discussion of the book
>adaptation into a movie. Is it too long if we watch a two hour movie then
>do an hour discussion, even with break and refreshments included?
>
>Any experience is welcome, please share.
>Thanks again!
>Hillary Theyer
>
>......................................................................
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FROM: Gary Niebuhr <[removed]@mcfls.org>
REC'D: 12/19/00, 2:01 PM

>Has anyone done a program where the group reads the same book then watches
a
movie and discusses the adaptation?

Yes, we have at Greendale Public Library. The mystery book discussions
that we had in 1999-2000 were called GREAT CRIME NOVELS MAKE GREAT MOVIES.
The attendees read the book and watched the video, then we had the
discussion. We spent about an hour on the book and one-half hour on the
movie. It was a great success. In fact, maybe too successful as the group
wanted to continue the same thing in 2000-2001. I had to wean them off of
film and get them back to reading.

Here is the list of titles that we read/watched.

James M. Cain's Double Indemnity (1935)
Daphne DuMaurier's Rebecca (1938)
Ernest Hemmingway's short story The Killers (1927) and Cornell Woolrich's
short story The Rear Window (1944)
Graham Greene's The Third Man (1949)
Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird (1960)
John Ball's In the Heat of the Night (1965)
Colin Dexter's The Dead of Jericho (1981)
Elmore Leonard's Get Shorty (1990)

>Is it too long if we watch a two hour movie then
do an hour discussion, even with break and refreshments included?

I think I would like attending something like this, but I am not sure my
attendees would like it. I would sure be interested in hearing if you try
it and if it is successful.


Best, GWN

Gary Warren Niebuhr, Library Director
Greendale Public Library
5647 Broad Street
Greendale, WI 53129
(414) 423-2136 (phone)
(414) 423-2139 (fax)
[removed]@mcfls.org
http://www.greendale.org/library.htm

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From: Theyer Hillary [[removed]@TORRNET.COM]
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 7:26 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: movie/book discussion programs

We would like to try it, but would love
to hear about successes (or failures) of this type of program. Our local
AAUW us doing a movie discussion but asking each member to rent and watch
the movie on their own, we were considering showing the movie in the
library
to the group. Also, we would like to have it be a discussion of the book
adaptation into a movie.

Any experience is welcome, please share.
Thanks again!
Hillary Theyer

FROM: "Mary Rindfleisch" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 12/19/00, 2:19 PM

We did this kind of thing this fall with End of the Affair and Cider House
Rules. Both titles were on the schedule for our book group, and we screened
the films at our regular film series the week before. As it was, because
they were both recent movies, lots of folks had seen them already AND they
are now both out on video, so I don't think offering the movie screening was
crucial to getting people to participate. But because we have the film
series in place anyhow, it was convenient to relate the two activities.
Trying to do both the viewing and a discussion in one night would have been
far too lengthy an undertaking, especially due to the expectations of
regular book discussion participants (see below for more on this).

Many people liked talking about the page-to-screen process, which was
especially effective with Cider House, because Irving had written the
filmscript and had pulished a book (My Movie Business) about the process,
which I as leader read for background and shared excerpts from when
appropriate. There was a fair amount of discussion about how/whether you
can condense such a teeming work of fiction to a fairly short time span,
what kind of compromises are necessary, what worked and what didn't, what we
really missed from the book that didn't make it into the film version, etc.

However, because the discussions were held within the existing framework of
our regular book discussion series, there were some people who felt that
discussion of the book was slighted by emphasis on the movie. At least a
couple stalwart discussion regulars are not moviegoers at all and really
didn't want to hear about it. Perhaps if your sessions are set up as a
whole different thing from the start, you could avoid this problem. With End
of the Affair, we agreed there was plenty to discuss just about the book
itself and, in deference to those who had not seen the movie, we started by
restricting our discussion to the book only for the first half or so of the
session, then moved on to the adaptation and the whole separate set of
questions it brought up.

Finally, because we were trying to meld the existing book group and the
existing film series, we wound up with people who had seen but not read, and
vice versa. As discussion facilitator, this meant I had to improvise quite
a lot, and really had to come prepared with several different sets of
discussion questions to meet the needs of all the different permutations.
Luckily, both of these works were stimulating as both novels and films, so
we were able to carry on lively dialogue without leaving too many people in
the dark.

This kind of project has the potential to attract folks for whom the concept
of a book discussion by itself seems too dry or too much work, so it is
definitely worth a try. Good luck!


Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

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[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Theyer Hillary
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 8:26 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: movie/book discussion programs


Has anyone done a program where the group reads the same book then watches a
movie and discusses the adaptation? We would like to try it, but would love
to hear about successes (or failures) of this type of program. Our local
AAUW us doing a movie discussion but asking each member to rent and watch
the movie on their own, we were considering showing the movie in the library
to the group. Also, we would like to have it be a discussion of the book
adaptation into a movie. Is it too long if we watch a two hour movie then
do an hour discussion, even with break and refreshments included?

Any experience is welcome, please share.
Thanks again!
Hillary Theyer

FROM: "Carrie FARROW" <[removed]@rochester.lib.mn.us>
REC'D: 12/19/00, 3:34 PM

I have lead a literature into film book group for a year now. It is very successful. About 15 people attend. We obtain copies of both the book and the film for the members through our regional library system. We all read the book and or watch the film before we meet. I select titles that I know the region has enough video copies of. Discussion centers more on the book, but its always fun to discuss the film adaptation too. It's also nice for book group members too, that if that month they don't have time to read the book, they can just watch the video, and still enter the discussion. I think watching and discussing all in one meeting would be too long.

Good luck with your group. Feel free to email again directly to me if you have any other questions.

Carrie T. Farrow
Adult Services Division
Rochester, MN 55904
(507)287-2611

>>> [removed]@TORRNET.COM 12/18/00 07:25PM >>>
Has anyone done a program where the group reads the same book then watches a
movie and discusses the adaptation? We would like to try it, but would love
to hear about successes (or failures) of this type of program. Our local
AAUW us doing a movie discussion but asking each member to rent and watch
the movie on their own, we were considering showing the movie in the library
to the group. Also, we would like to have it be a discussion of the book
adaptation into a movie. Is it too long if we watch a two hour movie then
do an hour discussion, even with break and refreshments included?

Any experience is welcome, please share.
Thanks again!
Hillary Theyer

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