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This is an enumerated list of possible media that a creative work might be adapted into. It is used in combination with the types adaptation and adapted work to record information about works that have been adapted into other forms. This list may not be exhaustive, so if the medium you need does not appear here, please add it.
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  • Industry, Computer Game Genre, Website Category, TV Genre, Type/domain equivalent topic, Adaptation medium
    A video game is a game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device. However, with the popular use of the term "video game", it now implies...
  • Type/domain equivalent topic, Adaptation medium
    A comic strip is a drawing or sequence of drawings that tells a story. Written and drawn by a comics artist, such strips are published on a recurring basis (usually daily or weekly) in newspaper and on the Internet. In the UK and the rest of Europe they are also...
  • Literary Genre, Type/domain equivalent topic, Media genre, Comic Book Genre, Adaptation medium
    A comic book -- or comic for short -- is a magazine or book containing sequential art. Although the term implies otherwise, the subject matter in comic books is not necessarily humorous; in fact, it is often serious and action-oriented. Comic books are so called...
  • Website Category, Quotation Subject, Type/domain equivalent topic, Industry, Broadcast Genre, Field Of Study, Adaptation medium
    Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with camera, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effect. ...
  • Book Subject, Literary Genre, Media genre, Adaptation medium
    A novel (from, Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new", "news", or "short story of something new") is today a long written, fiction, prose narrative. The seventeenth-century genre conflict between long romance and short novels, novella, has brought...
  • Musical genre, Film genre, Field Of Study, Type/domain equivalent topic, Broadcast Genre, Adaptation medium
    Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a drama work (called an opera) which combines a text (called a libretto) and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre,...
  • Quotation Subject, Broadcast Genre, Field Of Study, Adaptation medium
    Poetry (from the Greek "", poiesis, a "making" or "creating") is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as discrete poems, or may...
  • Type/domain equivalent topic, Adaptation medium
    A play, or stageplay, is a form of literature written by a playwright, almost always consisting of dialogue between fictional character, intended for theatrical performance rather than reading. The term is often used in contrast to "musical," which refers to a play...
  • Book Subject, Type/domain equivalent topic, Literary Genre, Media genre, Comic Book Genre, Adaptation medium
    The short story is a literary genre of fiction, prose narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such as novella (in the modern sense of the term) and novel.Short stories have their origins in oral story-telling traditions and...
  • Field Of Study, Adaptation medium
    Musical composition is: A piece of music exists in the form of a written composition in musical notation or as a single acoustic event (a live performance or recorded track). If composed before being performed, music can be performed from memory, through written...
  • Adaptation medium
    A television program (U.S.), television programme (UK) or simply television show is a segment of programming in television broadcasting. It may be a one-off broadcast or, more usually, part of a periodically returning television series. A television series that is...
  • Adaptation medium, Musical genre
    Rock operas, concept album, song cycle and oratorio all differ from a conventional rock album, which usually includes songs that are unrelated to each other in terms of storyline. The rock opera style sometimes overlaps with concept album, song cycle and oratorio. More...
  • Adaptation medium
    A picture book is a popular form of illustrated literature—more precisely, a book with comparatively few words and at least one picture on each of its openings—popularized in the 20th century Western world. The illustrations in picture books use a range of media...