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| Spring 2013 | ENGL 363.1 | MW | 2:00 - 3:15 | DU 270 | Scott Balcerzak | |
Title: LITERATURE AND FILMCourse Description: The relationship between film and literature, with specific attention to the aesthetic impact of narrative, drama, and poetry on film and to the significance in film of romanticism, realism, and expressionism as literary modes. The nature and history of the adaptation of literary works to film.PRQ: | ||||||
| Detailed Course Description: This class provides an overview of some of the major approaches to the study of film and literature – addresses issues of visual and verbal language, adaptation, narrative structure, authorship, and cultural myths. Through classroom lecture and discussion, the goal is to develop a deeper understanding of not only film as a storytelling medium, but also literature’s role within the age of cinema. During the last part of the term, special focus will be paid to Orson Welles as filmmaker and adaptor of literature. | ||||||
| Course Requirements: Short weekly reading/viewing response assignments; Two 5-7 page papers; out-of-class viewing of assigned films; Final Exam | ||||||
| Required Texts: Bernard Dick. Anatomy of Film. 5th or 6th Ed. (Bedford/St. Martin); Franz Kafka. The Trial (Oxford World Classics); William Shakespeare. Macbeth (Any Edition); Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818 Text, (Broadview Edition); Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons, (Any Edition); TBA e-reserve readings | ||||||
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