LHUM 319 - Fiction and Film

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Berklee College of Music

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Description:

Credits:3 credits Prerequisites:LCOR-112 Course Chair:C. Colatosti Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Fall Description This course focuses on film adaptations of novels and short stories, paying special attention to similarities and differences in narrative technique. Students view various types of film adaptations and consider reasons for changes from the works of fiction. The course emphasizes the challenges in adapting a work of literature to the screen, the limits and possibilities of both art forms, and the techniques writers and filmmakers use to express their ideas. In addition to discussing works of fiction, film adaptations, and the roles of the film director, screenwriter, and film scorer, students will have the opportunity to work on their own cinematic adaptation of a novel or short story, including writing original music for the screen. Such authors as George Orwell, Mary Shelley, Ernest Hemingway, Ayn Rand, Toni Morrison, and Kurt Vonnegut will be considered, as well as such film directors as Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, John Huston, Francis Ford Coppola, and Akira Kurosawa.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Historical Version(s):

09/01/2007 - 09/01/2007 

Institution Website:

www.berklee.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 747-2222

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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