106-032 Novel and Film

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

Usually 25 points of first-year English, see Prerequisites.

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 films and novels relate to society.

Class participation, and written work totalling 4000 words.

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