Western Kentucky University TopSCHOLAR® Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Honors College at WKU Projects 5-6-2015 A Miniseries of Unfortunate Events: Realizing the Full Potential of Lemony Snicket's Book Series through Television Adaptation Ryan T. Pait Western Kentucky University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/stu_hon_theses Part of the Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons, and the Screenwriting Commons Recommended Citation Pait, Ryan T., "A Miniseries of Unfortunate Events: Realizing the Full Potential of Lemony Snicket's Book Series through Television Adaptation" (2015). Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects. Paper 545. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/stu_hon_theses/545 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors College Capstone Experience/ Thesis Projects by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. A MINISERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS: REALIZING THE FULL POTENTIAL OF LEMONY SNICKET’S BOOK SERIES THROUGH TELEVISION ADAPTATION A Capstone Experience/Thesis Project Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Bachelor of Arts with Honors College Graduate Distinction at Western Kentucky University By Ryan T. Pait ***** Western Kentucky University 2015 CE/T Committee: Approved by Dr. Ted Hovet, Advisor Dr. Jerod Hollyfield ______________________ Advisor Mr. Derick Strode Department of English Copyright by Ryan T. Pait 2015 ABSTRACT Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, a series of 13 children’s books, seemed like it had the potential to become a massive franchise in a similar vein to the Harry Potter film series.