Film, Literature and Adaptation

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to: Explain changes in literature in two different eras; Evaluate different films that adapted a same literature work ; Evaluate the relation between a real event, a literature work based on that event, and film based on that literature work.

Topics

The course lets students explore development of styles and expressions in literature and how these developments were translated into visual language. The course also encourages students to study relations between literature, film and real life situation, and how the two mediums can represent reality.

Prerequisite : FM214 – Film and Society