LIBS653

This course explores and analyzes the complex relationship between literary narrative and cinematic discourse, and the factors that determine the transformation. It considers not only about the film making approaches, but also about how adaptation enables film to reinvent and redefine itself as cultural institutional discursive practice with each literary encounter. The course will also explore the major cinematic movements in Europe from the 1900s onwards. The relationship of filmic narration and literary texts will be explored, including European films from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. The films chosen for screening can be identified with the two traditions and analyzed vis-a-vis their literary adaptation.