Overview
Description
This course focuses on the theories and practices of adapting literature for film. Students will read short stories, novels, and plays that have been made into films and study the range of approaches filmmakers take to adapting such literature for the screen.
Units
Lecture3
Learning Outcomes
- write well-supported and coherent analyses of individual literary works in relation to films adapted from them.
- articulate the relationship between literature and film as distinct media.
- compose a screenplay that adapts of a portion of a literary work.
- apply their knowledge of film adaptation to their area of specialization.