<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd theorize the adaptation as a form of film. The episode takes its point of departure the continuing conversation over Nolan's <em>Odyssey. </em>Film adaptations, according to the hosts, must represent an intervention to the source text. This intervention can happen at a number of different levels but the most common is that film technology or conventions of filmmaking are altered, introduced, or changed in order to make a dynamic adaptation. The hosts discuss examples of film adaptations that bring a reading to bear on the source material and use the affordances of film to make this intervention clear, starting with the first ever film adaptation, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=sudcoCDlMKg&ra=m" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Georges Méliès <em>Cinderella</em> (1899)</a>. </p>
