Spring 2007 Courses

ENGL 260-01: Film Studies (Bognanni)

M/W/F 3:30-4:30pm, Old Main 001

The focus of this course will be on the process of adaptation. We will examine the way that novels, short stories, and graphic novels are transformed into films. In so doing we will engage in a comparative study of the mediums. Each art has its own ways of creating meaning, and telling a story. Each has its own language. Yet, the gap between them is not an unbridgeable one. There are many similarities and comparable tropes and techniques. Every adaptation is a metamorphosis. By studying the methods of this transformation we will come to better understand all mediums. Adaptations studies include: Heart of Darkness to Apocalypse Now, A Clockwork Orange, and The Hours.

Spring 2007 Course Listings