Movie & Song Adaptation

Learning Outcomes :

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Explain about literary adaptation to Film; Identify adaptations that are good or bad; Criticize adaptations to further improve them.

Topics :

1. Literary Adaptation in the Silent Era;
2. Writing on the Silent Screen;
3. Adaptation and Modernism;
4. Adaptation and Intertextuality;
5. Film Authorship and Adaptation;
6. The Business of Adaptation;
7. Adapting the X-Men;
8. The Classic Novel on British Television;
9. Screened Writers;
10. Costume and Adaptation;
11. Music into Movies;
12. Rambo on Page and Screen;
13. Writing for the Movies.