I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Adaptations
The television version of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was presented in 1979 by CBS as its Saturday Night Movie. In collaboration with Leonora Thuna, Maya Angelou wrote the screenplay. The direction was by Fielder Cook.
The television adaptation focuses on the tone of the story — the pathos of the situation of the black community in the Depression-era South — instead of dramatic suspense to advance the plot of the story.
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