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| Fall 2013 | ENGL 690.1 | W | 6:00 - 8:40 | RH202 | Scott Balcerzak | |
Title: LITERATURE AND FILMCourse Description: The relationship between literature and film as narrative forms. The significance of literary modes such as romanticism and realism for film content and structure. Analysis of the adaptation of literary works to the medium of film.PRQ: | ||||||
| Detailed Course Description: Course Description: This course examines the relationship between film and literature as something remarkably fluid, complicating various cultural myths and recasting the literary work into a new cultural context. Through this study, the goal is to develop a scholar’s understanding of not only film’s transformative power as a storytelling medium, but also literature’s role within the age of cinema. | ||||||
| Course Requirements: Requirements: Midterm research project, seminar paper, weekly screening of assigned films (made available at the library). | ||||||
| Required Texts: Required Texts: Bertolt Brecht. The Three Penny Opera. Penguin Classics. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles. Broadview Press Edition. Lorraine Hansberry. A Raisin in the Sun. Vintage Books. Franz Kafka. The Trial. Oxford World’s Classic Edition. William Shakespeare. Macbeth (Any Edition) James Naremore, ed. Film Adaptation. Rutgers UP. TBA E-reserve Readings.
Suggested Text: Timothy Corrigan, Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader, 2nd ed., Routledge Press, 2012. | ||||||
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