ENG 238, 239 - Plays on Film

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR (students beginning prior to Fall 2024): Meets general academic requirement HU.
Meets requirement: W when offered as 239
Plays on Film is a study of the (all too few) aesthetically successful films made from stage plays, approached in the context of why adaptations of plays to film typically do not in fact, work. In addition to studying a canon of plays and films, this course will also engage (and contrast) textual, performance-based and image-based methodologies, and students will be asked to write papers demonstrating proficiency in all three theoretical approaches. Satisfies departmental Drama/Transmedia requirement.