FLM 283 Film Adaptations
This course examines the relationship between literature and cinema by focusing on how prose genres, such as novels and short stories, are interpreted for the screen. Adaptation theory, the systematic study of film based on literary sources, will provide a foundation for our central question: How does the medium — pages or a screen — affect the transmission of a narrative to its intended audience? In addition to casual and formal responses to readings, screenings, and lecture-discussions, students will write their own screenplay adaptations.