Instr:                Ben Schneider
Office:              CRT 592,     229-6077
e-mail:              terrapin@uwm.edu
Office hours:    by appointment.

Course Information:                      MW      11:30-1:20          CRT 104

Course Description
 

This course will explore approaches to the art, theory, and cultural politics of movie adaptations, even challenging what is meant by the term "adaptation" itself.  Through readings and screenings students will be asked to interrogate these and other questions: What is the nature of the "literary" and the "cinematic"?  Why do so many of the films described as adaptations derive from canonical literature rather than from other sources?  How do the different media affect the ways in which stories are told?  Why is the book always "better" than
the movie?

To support students in developing and focusing their own theories of adaptation.  We will also be reading selected adaptation theory and criticism, including Andre Bazin, Robert Stam, Judith Mayne, and others.  A course reader will be available.