This critical and creative study employs Louise Rosenblatts Transactional Theory of Reading as a basis for critical analysis and a theoretical catalyst for creative writing. The two parts take the form of a critical essay and adapted screenplay in response to a selected short story. Various facets of Rosenblatts theory and its place in the field of reader-response are explored in order to inform a method of reading and interpretation. Next, the body of cinema criticism concerned with the relationship between literature and film is reconsidered beyond the question of a films fidelity to its...