Page to Screen: Short Film Adaptation

In this issue of POVwinona, we present three short films that Winona State film students and alumni created this year.  After studying the book to film adaptation process, they selected original material that inspired them to create new adaptations.  This process...
Stanley Kubrick: The Early Work of an Emerging Auteur

Stanley Kubrick: The Early Work of an Emerging Auteur

This issue of POVwinona will focus its critical lens on legendary film director Stanley Kubrick, looking first at his start in filmmaking, then examining his developing work in light of the theory of the director as auteur that was emerging at the same time. With this...

POVwinona Issue #3: Neo-Noir

Our third issue focuses on the evolution of the classic noir film movement from the 1940s into neo-noir.  Principles stayed the same, but artistic changes happened with a broader color palette, a new set of auteurs, changing social mores, and greater explicitness...

POVwinona Issue #2: Page-to-Screen Adaptation

Our second issue focuses on the decisions that filmmakers consider when adapting films from written works.  The adaptation process takes into consideration narrative structure, fidelity to source material, stylistic and generic considerations, and a wide range of...