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Film Studies: Fiction into Film
1. Adaptation
Introducing students to current theories and practices in the field of of film adaption focusing on novels and films that represent the nature and implication on the practice.
a) Novel : E M Froster's A passage to India
b) Novella : Sarat chandra's Paraneeta
2. Adaptation as interpretation
Novel: Vladimir Nabakov's Lolita.
Film: Stanley Kubrick's Lolita.
3. Adaptation as departure.
Novel: Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient
Film: Anthony Minghella's The English patient.
4. Adaptation as point of view.
Novel: Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake.
Film: Meera Nair's The Namesake.
5.Archetypal genre theme:Paranoia
Novel: Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby
Film: Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby.
6. Adaptation as parable.
Novel: Isaak Denisen's Babette's Feast.
Film: Gabriel Axel`s Babette's Feast.
7. Adaptating genre fiction:The detective story/The Film Noir.
Book: Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.
Film: John Huston's The Maltese Falcon.
8. Adapting the graphic novel.
Book: Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis
Film: Satrapi's persepolis.
Readings:
Double Exposure: Fiction into film, Joyce Gould Blum, Seagull books
What is film adaption? Phillip lopate, Essay from bookforum.
From script to screen .
Writing a Film Review/Essay
Reading a sample of various kinds of flim reviews and essays by the best practicing critics oday. Looking at the structure of a good review and essay
Writing/producing a film review and essay:
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