ENGL2638 - Literature and Cinema

Semester 2, 2013  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: David Kelly
Phone: +61 2 9351 2214
Email: david.kelly@sydney.edu.au

Description

This unit will examine issues arising from a comparative study of literature and cinema. Our focus will be on issues arising from a consideration of the continuities and discontinuities between the two mediums, including: the cultural and historical contexts of literary and cinematic texts; authorship, auteurism and aesthetic authority; adaptation and intertextuality; the figurative styles of literature and cinema; narrative and narration in literature and cinema; genre study.

Assessments

1x500wd oral presentation (10%), 1x2000wd essay (50%), 1x1500wd take-home exercise (40%)

Classes

1x1-hr lecture/week,
1x2-hr seminar/week

Prerequisites

18 junior credit points including ARHT1002 or ENGL1025 or ENGL1026 or ENGL1011 OR 18 senior credit points from English or Australian Literature

Prohibitions

ENGL2038

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