ENG 255, 256 - Literature & Film

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR (students beginning prior to Fall 2024): Meets general academic requirement HU (and IL when offered as 256).
Meets Explore Core requirement (students beginning Fall 2024 and later): CE
This course explores the dynamic relationship between literature and film, the art of adapting literary text into visual narrative. It examines the challenges and opportunities that arise when transforming written words into cinematic images. Through a selection of literary works and their film adaptations, we will analyze the processes of adaptation, interpretation and transformation and consider the ways in which film attempts to translate, represent and creatively reinterpret literary works. Possible text/films we will discuss include The Orchid Thief and “Adaptation”, We the Animals and its recent film, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and “Bladerunner”, and the fairy tale, Bluebeard, and “Ex Machina.” Satisfies departmental Prose or Drama/Transmedia requirement.