ENG 1232 LITERATURE ON SCREEN
We might judge a film adaptation by how well it “lives up” to the book it’s based on. The current popularity of franchises, remakes and spin-offs, however, make the question of literary adaptation far more complex and interesting. This course explores adaptation – how books are translated into film, television and digital media – and examines how multiple media use different storytelling techniques.
Course Types
Expression, Literature
Offered
Fall
- 2000-level Literature Outcomes:
1. Perform a close reading and explain how various formal aspects of a text (word choice, sentence structures, tone, paragraphing, formatting, and punctuation) affect its interpretation. [FORMAL] - 2. Perform a close reading and explain how various formal aspects of a text (word choice, sentence structures, tone, paragraphing, formatting, and punctuation) affect its interpretation. [FORMAL]
- 3. Understand that literary texts channel, endorse, and respond to larger ideologies and cultural assumptions. [CULTURAL]
- 4. Understand what makes texts unique in relation to other media and will compare and contrast the written word with other storytelling techniques. [MODAL]
- 5. Engage with secondary criticism and respond to a critical interpretation. [CRITICAL]
- Section-Specific Goals:
1. Analyze the visual medium of film through its constituent formal elements. - 2. Understand the adaptation strategies that guide the transfer of one media discourse to another.
- 3. Compose a formal analysis of film-as-text or adaptation for electronic environments and audiences using digital tools (storyboarding software, screen-capturing/video editing platforms.
- 4. Attend to our own responses, questions, confusions, and elations when reading and viewing as a way of thinking about both what interests us and how a given text works.
- 5. Challenge our expectations and assumptions – about ourselves, the texts we study, and the world in which we live.