Novel into film (author study)
Proposed to be offered next in 1996
8 points * 4 hours per week * Second semester * Caulfield * Prerequisites: ENH1100 and ENH1110, or approved equivalents
This subject builds on the theoretical framework established in ENH2810 (Novel into film) in which the processes of transposition from a prose fiction narrative to one created in audiovisual moving images are explored. In focusing on the working of a particular author who has been frequently and notably adapted to the screen, the objectives will be to reach an understanding of those elements of the author which appear amenable to the transposition and those which, intransigently tied to the verbal mode, draw on cinema-specific codes, if the filmmaker has sought to find equivalents.
Assessment
Written (4000 words): 70% * Examinations (2 hours): 30%
Prescribed texts
Dickens C Great expectations OUP
Dickens C A Christmas carol OUP
Dickens C Hard times OUP
Dickens C A tale of two cities OUP
Recommended texts
Barthes R `Introduction to a structural analysis of narratives' in Image-Music-Text Fontana
Bordwell D Narration and the fiction film U Wisconsin P
Chatman S Story and discourse: Narrative structures in fiction and film Cornell UP