Question

I am an 8th grade English teacher in St. Charles, IL. My students are writing a movie review that compares a movie to its original short story version. Since a movie's title would be underlined (or italicized) and the short story title would have quotation marks around it, what would one due to the title if both are beging referred to at the same time? (The movie and short story of A Christmas Memory... )

Answer 1

I would assume that the short story would have the priority, since it is the original format. A sentence comparing both could thus be along the lines of "in the movie adaptation of 'A Christmas Memory'" or "in both versions of 'A Christmas Memory'"

Answer 2

I'm sorry but does it really matter? You should ask other teachers if you really want an answer I doubt anybody here will know.

Answer 3

When your students are referencing the book use what you normally would and put the word book after it "A Christmas Story Book", or make sure the sentence mention that you are talking about the book such as, In the book, "A Christmas Story" I liked........ And for the movie underline "A Christmas Story Movie" or make sure the sentence mentions that you are talking about the movie such as, In the movie, "A Christmas Story" is liked when...

So to answer your question here is an example. In the book, "A Christmas Story" it had the lovely bird, but in the movie, "A Christmas Story" it had a cow instead.

I hope that you have a lovely weekend and I hope this answered your question.

Answer 4

But I believe the question was how do you punctuate it when you're referring to both formats at the same time.