| CODE | ENG3372 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Modern and Post Modern Fiction into Film | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | English | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This course is an analytical inquiry into some special problems of filming post/modern British novels. Two major issues will be considered: whether the literary work’s characterisation filtered through streams of consciousness, temporal/spatial disjunctions and metafictional devices can be reconceived in terms of Never Let Me Go analogous cinematic techniques; and whether figurative imagery can be recreated by means of visual/aural correlatives. The following topics will be analysed in detail: - Huston’s The Dead: Filming Joyce’s Musical Epiphanies. - Russell’s Women in Love: A Lawrentian Life/Death Dance. - À la Recherche of Hartley’s The Go-Between: Temps Perdu for Losey? - Reisz’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman: Filming Fowles’ Metafiction. - Appropriating Ondaatje’s Spectral Vision: Minghella’s The English Patient. - Wright’s Atonement: Adapting McEwan’s Ethics of Fiction. - Filming Ishiguro’s Aesthetic Soul: Romanek’s Never Let Me Go. Reading List: - Boozer, Jack (ed.). Authorship in Film Adaptation. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. - Boyum, Joy Gould. Double Exposure: Fiction into Film. New York: Universe Books, 1985. - Cooper, Stephen (ed.). Perspectives on John Huston. New York: G.K. Hall, 1994. - Dalrymple, James. “Joe Wright’s Atonement, (Re)writing and Adaptation”, in A Diachronic Approach to Ian McEwan’s Fiction: From Sensationalism to Ethical Writing. Caen: University of Caen, 2018. - Elsassaer, Thomas. .Joseph Losey’s The Go-Between. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005. - Gardner, Colin. Joseph Losey. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004. - Gomez, Joseph A. Ken Russell: The Adaptor as Creator. New York: Pergamon Press, 1977. - Greiff, Louis K. D.H. Lawrence: Fifty Years on Film. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001. - Hirsch, Foster. Joseph Losey. Boston: Twayne, 1980. - Hutcheon, Linda. A Theory of Adaptation. New York: Routledge, 2006. - Lothe, Jakob. Narrative in Fiction and Film: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. - Naremore, James (ed.) Film Adaptation. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000. - Palmer, James and Michael Riley. The Films of Joseph Losey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. - Pillip, Frank. “Narrative Devices and Aesthetic Perception in Joyce and Huston’s The Dead ”. Literature/Film Quarterly 21:1 (1993): 61-68. - Sadashige, Jacqui. “Sweeping the Sands: Geographies of Desire in The English Patient”. Literature/Film Quarterly 26.4 (1998): 242-254. - Sanders, Julie. Adaptation and Appropriation. New York: Routledge, 2006. - Sinyard, Neil. Filming Literature: The Art of Screen Adaptation. Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1986. - Sternberg, Douglas G. “A Firmament in the Midst of the Waters: Dimensions of Love in The English Patient”. Literature/Film Quarterly 26.4 (1998): 255-262. - Stock, Timo. “Why Drive? Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Film Never Let Me Go”. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis 97.1 (2016): 187-201. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Saviour Catania |
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