Tag: Ransom Riggs

• From Page to Screen: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

  February 10, 2017

  Film

  adaptation, fantasy, film analysis, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs, Tim Burton, YA Fiction

  I’m totally fascinated by (some might say obsessed with) adaptation. If you believe, as I do, that nothing is truly original, then pretty much every cultural product is some form of adaptation or interpretation. I think of it as an extremely creative process: how to make unfamiliar the familiar (fairy tale adaptation); how to bring…