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Literature in Film 2

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
301LF2 ZK 2 3/T Czech summer
Subject guarantor:
Marie MRAVCOVÁ
Name of lecturer(s):
Marie MRAVCOVÁ
Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Emphasis is placed on the ability to implement the literary characteristics of a verbal work, that is its analysis from the perspective of basic aspects: genre, subject matter, narrator, characters, space, time. Scriptwriting students are to be able to pose, considering the literary text, questions regarding its ability to become a film, be aware of where there will be resistance to the script transformation. In a film adaptation we learn to recognize the dramaturgical and film-image intentions of the artists (adaptors): additional shifts (style, characters, visual environment, etc.), changes and creation of the original material. A familiarity with the author of the literary work is required and with the context of the work.

Mode of study:

Instructor lead and supplemented communications (preparatory) of some course participants, to which a colloqium debate linked.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Required is a knowledge of the assigned literary works and viewing of their film adaptations.

Recommended optional programme components:

None

Course contents:

Instruction focuses on the significant literary bases in artistic prose and their film portrayal (reforming, transformation, etc.) - particularly in comparison to the written text and form with its dramatic depiction transformation (in its film version). The course program has three variants:

1. Historical - analysing the film adaptation according to canonized historical works of literature, the so called classics (Oedipus, Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, Dangerious Liasons, Madame Bovary, Germinal, etc.)

2. Modernist - we select and research texts which arose in the first half of the 20th century and marked the majority of signifcant developmental impulses, or direct experiments (A Death in Venice, Swan Lake, The Trial, Orlando, Břeyový Haj, etc.)

3. Current - Literary foundations published after the Second World War are arranged and analysed (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Clockwork Orange, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Conformista, Naked Lunch, etc.)

Recommended or required reading:

Selected works of world literature

Secondary professional literature

Film adaptation

Information material about creative adaptations

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Analysis o literary works and their film adaptations through lectures, classes and film screenings.

Assessment methods and criteria:

- class participation hwoch requires a knowledge of the model of the corresponding film

- at least one paper per semester

- year's paper: an analysis of a selected literary work and identification of the adaptation intentions, or critical assessment of those intentions.

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Further information:
This course is an elective for all AMU students
Schedule for winter semester 2014/2015:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer semester 2014/2015:
06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
místnost 432
Učebna KSD 432
(Lažanský palác)
MRAVCOVÁ M.
16:30–18:55
(přednášková par. 1)
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Thu 16:30–18:55 MRAVCOVÁ M. Učebna KSD 432
Lažanský palác 		přednášková par. 1
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