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 106-032 Novel and Film

Note

Formerly available as 106-240/340. Students who have completed 106-240/340 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Anne Maxwell

Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of First Year English, see Prerequisites.

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

A 1-hour lecture per week and nine 2-hour tutorials scheduled across the semester

Subject Description

This subject will teach students how to read films and novels in some detail - and in relation to one another. 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? Students who complete this subject successfully will have an understanding of the formal and technical differences between the novel and the film, some of the techniques of reading the apparatus of mainstream films, and the way each medium is placed in contemporary society.

Assessment

Written work totalling 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • F Bordwell, Film Art: An Introduction. (3rd ed) McGraw Hill.
  • J Cain, Double Indemnity. Random.
  • J Conrad, Heart of Darkness. Norton.
  • P K Dick, Bladerunner.
  • D DuMaurier, Rebecca.
  • Films: A Hitchcock, Rebecca.
  • F Coppola, Apocalypse Now.
  • R Scott, Bladerunner.
  • B Wilder, Double Indemnity.
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