THE COURSE IS designed to look into the relationship between literature and film since the onset of this new medium. You will learn about:
◆Narrative construction
◆Inter-semiotic translations
◆Theories of adaptations
◆Selected literary texts ad their adaptations
◆History of literature through the “masterpieces”
◆Interpretation of the literary/cinematic texts and expression of opinions
◆Narrative construction
◆Inter-semiotic translations
◆Theories of adaptations
◆Selected literary texts ad their adaptations
◆History of literature through the “masterpieces”
◆Interpretation of the literary/cinematic texts and expression of opinions
Plan of FILM ADAPTATION sessions:
1. What’s adaptation? Appropriation? Cultural History. Theory/iesof film adaptation. The classification of literature: “Wold literature” (Franco Moretti, Fredric Jameson) versus national literatures.
2. Education/France: Is Literature Guilty? Emma Bovary as Romantic Don Quixote. Film: Madame Bovary, dir. Claude Chabrol(1991) Book. Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, 1856 (any English translation)
3. Woman’s Question/Russia: The Story of Anna Karenina: Adultery, Motherhood and True Love. Film: Anna Karenina, dir. Joe Wright (2012). Book: Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1878 (any English translations)W
4. War/ Germany: The Catastrophe of the WWI. Film: All Quite on the Western Front by Delbert Mann (1979) Book: All Quiet on the Western Front (ImWestennichtsNeues) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
6. Language/Surrealism: S. Beckett, Waiting for Godot!
7. Unimaginable/Italy: The Fight for Humanity: the private Story of Holocaust.
Film: The Pianist, or
Film: La vittae bella(Life is beautiful), dir. Roberto Begnini(1997). Book: In the End, I Beat Hitlerby RubinoRomeo Salmonì(1920 – 2011) or, The Pianist by Roman Polański(book by Władysław Szpilman)
Film: The Pianist, or
Film: La vittae bella(Life is beautiful), dir. Roberto Begnini(1997). Book: In the End, I Beat Hitlerby RubinoRomeo Salmonì(1920 – 2011) or, The Pianist by Roman Polański(book by Władysław Szpilman)
8. Taboo/ Love/Hungary: Another Story of Communism. Film: Another Way(Egymásranézve, 1982, dir. KarolyMakk). Book: semi-autobiographical novella Another Love (Törvényen belül) by ErzsebetGalgoczi(1930-89).
9. Murder/United States: Murder: Cinematic Representation. Film: Rear Window dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1954) Book: It Had to Be Murderby Cornell Woolrich (1942). Or other murder/crime story by Hitchcock based on the novel.
10. 9. DRAGSDrags/Great Britain: The Story of the 1990s. Cult Films. Film: Trainspotting, dir. Danny Boyle (1996)Bool: Trainspottingby Irvine Welsh (1993).
MEETING 1
Literature has always been an inspiration for filmmakers, and concurrently, film and the cinema business becomes increasingly significant method of popularizing literature. The course aims at presenting the selected aspects of history of the world’s literature through the film adaptations as well as the films from the point of view of literary criticism, taking into account various cultural and national contexts.
The course is designed to look into the relationship between literature and film since the onset of this new medium
The course is designed to look into the relationship between literature and film since the onset of this new medium
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