İDE206

School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature

3

6

Elective

English

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Undergraduate

This course will focus mainly on the study of literary works and their film adaptations, and students will develop a reflective and analytical approach to examine the relationship between literature and film. The central inquiry of the course revolves around the following questions: What insights can literature students gain from interacting with films? How does form affect narrative? What can literature do that film cannot? What can film do that literature cannot? By addressing these questions, the course will dispense with more traditional classical examples and instead examine unique literary works and their film adaptations, as well as films based on original scripts.

Giannetti, Louis. Understanding Movies. 13th edition. Boston: Allyn and Bacon/Pearson, 2014
Constanzo, Linda C. Literature into Film. Theory and Practical Approaches. NC: Library of Congress, 2006.
Corrigan, Timothy. Film and Literature. An Introduction and Reader. NY: Routledge, 2012.

This course explores the complex interplay between film, literature and other textual forms. and how these media mutually inform and shape each other.

1. Understand the relationship between literature and film whose texts, information and sources are critical and objective
2. analyze and interpret literary and cinematic texts using close reading and critical analysis
3. Explore the various ways in which film adapts and represents literary texts.
4. Demonstrate analytical skills in visual literacy and reading filmed texts; and To become familiar with ways of discussing and evaluating films as reflections of cultures and source texts.
5. An interest in discussing/analyzing films beyond the superficial narrative or character level participate in the "community", evaluate and analyze
6. Put forward and articulate arguments with academic/scientific logic Developing academic research and article writing skills
7. Active, dynamic and improve close reading skills
8. Ask important and critical questions and answer these complex questions convincingly develop responses
9. Develop skills in summarizing and paraphrasing

Week 1: Understanding the relationship between literature and film
Week 2: Adaptations
Week 3: Adaptations
Week 4: Cinematic Writers and Literary Filmmakers
Week 5: Cinematic Writers and Literary Filmmakers
Week 6: How can films transcend the quality of their source material?
Week 7: Identities/Representations
Week 8: Identities/Representations
Week 9: Movies About Writers
Week 10: Week: Cinematic Writers and Literary Filmmakers
Week 11: Narrative Films: Possibilities of storytelling in film
Week 12: General Review

• Midterm 30 %
• Final 40 %
• Presentation Assignment 30 %