ENGL 457 - Novels Into Film

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Trinity College

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In this course we will study selected adaptations of novels into film, examining some of the basic theoretical and practical issues involved in adapting a text from one medium to another, using as case studies selected novels and films. Text to be studied may include Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (comparing the 1926 version to the 1996 version), Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (Scorsese film), John McDonald, The Executioners with two films: Cape Fear, (1962, J. Lee Thompson) and (1991, Martin Scorsese); Mario Puzo, The Godfather (1972, Coppola film); Daphne duMaurier, Rebecca (1940, Hitchcock). Other films and novels may be chosen, but the focus of the course will be the nature of the individual adaptation in relationship to the issues generically involved in adapting prose fiction to the medium of film. We will read the films as texts in their own right. This course counts as a core course for the Writing, Rhetoric, and Media Arts track of the English M.A. or en elective in the Literary Studies track; for undergraduate English majors, it counts as a course emphasizing literature after 1800 or a literary theory course. 1.00 units, Seminar

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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