Course Code: GLIT 220
Academic Year: 2024-2025
In recent years the film and television industries have been dominated by literary adaptations. Drawing on graphic novels, films, short stories, and novels, students will focus on how stories are taken from written text and adapted to film. They will analyze recent definitions of adaptation and their related theories, arguing whether revisiting a story will result in a degraded copy of the original or, as proposed by Hutcheon (2006), "an extended, deliberate, announced revisitation of a particular work of art." Students will also explore techniques in the visualization of stories and consider how genre, media, historical periods, culture, and other power dynamics influence the development of a story.