Film Adaptation
Course code
HIK7457.HT
old course code
Course title in Estonian
Filmiadaptsioon
Course title in English
Film Adaptation
ECTS credits
6.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
To provide knowledge of the theories of adaptation and the field of adaptation studies, with a focus on the relationship between literature and film, while also including other media. The course will offer an overview of the critical debates about (film) adaptation and develops interdisciplinary skills for the analysis of literature, film, and other media. The course introduces to the students the selected film adaptations and their sources.
Brief description of the course
The course introduces adaptation studies via different texts, focusing on literature and film, but including also computer games, comics etc. The course analyses several key concepts of adaptation studies, such as fidelity, translation (including between languages, cultures, and media), and authorship.
The course will analyse adaptation studies via theoretical engagement and close textual analysis. Twelve films and two novels that are part of Western cultural canon (a concept that will be problematised during the course) will be explored. The course will demonstrate the complexity of adaptation studies and offers an opportunity to recognise adaptation studies as an independent discipline and a discourse in which the most various topics and fields of interest will meet. Each seminar will concentrate on analysing a key concept of adaptation studies. The concepts will include: fidelity, medium specificity, adaptation, authorship, cultures and forms, politics, philosophy, comics, and computer games.
The course will analyse adaptation studies via theoretical engagement and close textual analysis. Twelve films and two novels that are part of Western cultural canon (a concept that will be problematised during the course) will be explored. The course will demonstrate the complexity of adaptation studies and offers an opportunity to recognise adaptation studies as an independent discipline and a discourse in which the most various topics and fields of interest will meet. Each seminar will concentrate on analysing a key concept of adaptation studies. The concepts will include: fidelity, medium specificity, adaptation, authorship, cultures and forms, politics, philosophy, comics, and computer games.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- has developed their analytical skills and ability to link different discourses with textual analysis of films and novels;
- has learned to compose and evaluate texts written in different genres, understand reasons behind opting for different adaptation choices;
- has been acquainted with ten internationally acclaimed films and novels;
- has got a detailed overview of adaptation and its different forms.
- has developed their analytical skills and ability to link different discourses with textual analysis of films and novels;
- has learned to compose and evaluate texts written in different genres, understand reasons behind opting for different adaptation choices;
- has been acquainted with ten internationally acclaimed films and novels;
- has got a detailed overview of adaptation and its different forms.
Teacher
Teet Teinemaa
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