Literature in Film 1

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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:

Seminar

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

A requirement is a knowledge of the assigned literary bases and viewing of particular films.

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

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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Note:

No note.

Further information:

This course is an elective for all AMU students

Schedule for winter semester 2015/2016:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2015/2016:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Bachelor (qualification subject, faculty subject, optional subject)