Formal, philosophical, and thematic relationships between literature and cinema.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students: Additional reading, research, and written work.
Athena Title
Literature and Cinema
Undergraduate Prerequisite
Experience engaging critically with literary or other texts and experience developing and expressing ideas in written and oral form.
Graduate Prerequisite
Experience engaging critically with literary or other texts and experience developing and expressing ideas in written and oral form.
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to develop, support, and express ideas in written and oral form using language with clarity and precision in coherent, cohesive essays, and/or oral presentations.
Students will be able to synthesize competing positions into an original argument supported by textual evidence.
Students will be able to interpret the formal, aesthetic, and creative elements of literary, cinematic, and cultural texts and the social and historical contexts in which they circulate.
Students will be able to investigate, analyze, synthesize, and demonstrate knowledgeably and coherently, in written and oral form, the relationship between literature and film.
Students will be able to explain various theories of artistic adaptation and apply them to a fuller comprehension of individual films.
Topical Outline
Adaptations studies
Theories of adaptation
Film history
Literary theory
The rhetoric of fiction
Genres and media
Cinematography
Social commentary
Art and reality
Film/literature and censorship
World cinema
Fiction and non-fiction
Feature and documentary film
Literature/film criticism
Aesthetics
Institutional Competencies
Communication
The ability to effectively develop, express, and exchange ideas in written, oral, or visual form.
Critical Thinking
The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.
