صفحة عضو هيئة التدريس

           Course Description Since many cinematic works are inspired by literary production, this course encourages students to explore the transitional process of a narrative between two distinctive media, literature and film. Based on their knowledge of literary form, students are encouraged in the course to record and analyze how a literary artefact is reshaped by the visual reproduction of that literary work. In each lecture, students are exposed to a close reading of both text and film in order to explore formal and cultural shifts generated through the process of adaptation taking into consideration the theories and rhetoric associated with the analysis of adaptation. They are also encouraged to observe how these shifts may differ in nature and degree from one adaptation to another by comparing and contrasting adaptations undertaken in each lecture to those discussed in previous lectures. This will help students in forming their arguments in their final project.

            Taking into account the theoretical and contextual issues involved in the transition from text to film, students are encouraged to think about the broader issues involved within adaptation theory. These issues include, but are not limited to, issues of authorship between text and film, faithfulness to the original in translating a text into film, point of view, transformation of language from text to film, the nuances generated by cultural shifts in the context of both text and film, and how the use of technology might affect and reshape the message in the original text.