Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(ΛΕ154) -  Άγγελος Ευαγγέλου

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What do we mean when we say that “the book is better than the film” and how appropriate is this word (“better”) when we express an opinion about films based on literary texts? Drawing from film adaptation theories (e.g. Bluestone, McFarlane, Cardwell, Hutcheon, Brokenshire and others), this module explores the conditions, the reasons and the ways in which literary texts are adapted for the screen, allowing thus the students to assess the director’s choices as well as their ideological, aesthetic or commercial implications. Students will also have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with film analysis terminology and methodology. Through the close reading of a range of literary texts such as Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899), Saki’s “The Open Window” (1914) and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) as well as British productions of film adaptations such as Richard Ayoade’s The Double (2013), the students will examine comparatively the stylistic and technical characteristics of the literary and the cinematographic modes of expression for an understanding and appreciation of their main differences as well as an assessment of the text and its film adaptation both as related and autonomous art products.

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Κυριακή 27 Φεβρουαρίου 2022