ENGLISH 329 - Film and Fiction

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Reed College

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Full course for one semester. This course looks at ways film directors have adapted significant novels for the screen. We will focus on narrative in fiction as it has been transformed into narrative for films; the different techniques for storytelling each medium employs; and various criteria for assessing the success or failure of such adaptations, along the way examining the notion of "fidelity" as a valid criterion for assessing film adaptations. We will also regard how point of view is established in each genre. Some attention will be given to cinematic codes and to ways of discussing how literary language is rendered in visual terms. Novels and the films adopted from them will include such classics as Nabokov ? Lolit a, Mann 's Death in Veni ce, Graham Green e's The Third Man, Conr ad's Heart of Darkness (Apocalypse Now), John Fo wles' The French Lieutenant's Woman, Henry James' Washington Square (The H eiress), and Julio Co rtazar' s Blowup. Prerequisite: two English or literature courses. Con

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.reed.edu

Phone Number:

(503) 771-1112

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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