Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 57)
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106-240/340 "Novel and Film" appears differently in several places - choose the one you want:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p57) : Next:106-242 | Prev:106-234
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: To be advised.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will have:
- an understanding of the formal and technical differences between the novel and the film;
- an introductory understanding of techniques of writing for films;
- an understanding of the way each medium is placed in contemporary society;
- an understanding of each of the texts treated in the subject, in the light of contemporary critical debates;
- a grasp of concepts such as ideology and representation as they enable us to read novel and film texts.
Content:
This subject will teach students how to read films and novels in some detail - and in relation to one another. It will give them the opportunity to write a short adaptation of their own. By focusing on particular texts, it will also help students answer such questions as: why do film adaptations consistently represent society more blandly than their original texts? Is there a literary equivalent to films' visual and narrative pleasures?
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p57) : Next:106-242 | Prev:106-234
2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p103) : Next:106-242 | Prev:106-234
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: To be advised.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will have:
- an understanding of the formal and technical differences between the novel and the film;
- an introductory understanding of techniques of writing for films;
- an understanding of the way each media is placed in contemporary society;
- an understanding of each of the texts treated in the subject, in the light of contemporary critical debates; and
- a grasp of concepts such as ideology and representation as they enable us to read novel and film texts.
Content:
This subject will teach students how to read films and novels in some detail - and in relation to one another. It will give them the opportunity to write a short adaptation of their own. By focusing on particular texts, it will also help students answer such questions as: why do film adaptations consistently represent society more blandly than their original texts? Is there a literary equivalent to films' visual and narrative pleasures?
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p103) : Next:106-242 | Prev:106-234
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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