EAF2510 - Adaptation: Text, Image, Culture
2022/3 Module description
| Staff | Professor Joe Kember - Convenor |
|---|---|
| Credit Value | 30 |
| ECTS Value | 15 |
| NQF Level | 5 |
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Co-requisites | None |
| Duration of Module | Term 2: 11 weeks; |
Module description
The process of adapting material from literary forms, such as scripts, short stories, novels and plays into film, television and other screen media is one of the oldest, most dominant and most ubiquitous strategies in the creative industries. By analysing a wide range of adaptations in different forms you will be able to understand the rich and complex relationships between textual and visual media at distinct historical moments and in specific cultural contexts. This module offers students the opportunity to understand adaptation as a creative process and adaptations as cultural products.
Module aims
- To engage students in the study of adaptations in diverse forms, genres and styles across stage, page, film, radio, television, graphic novels and new media. These adaptations are analysed in the light of theories of text, authorship, genre and cross-cultural exchange.
- To give you an understanding of the creative processes and the workings of creative industries in shaping, visualising and circulating literary narratives and cultural forms.
ILO: Module-specific skills
- 1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of the aesthetic, theoretical and cultural questions which arise from the transformation of literary texts onto film
- 2. Demonstrate an understanding of the critical debates about adaptation, authorship, genre and cross-cultural translation in relation to adaptations
- 3. Demonstrate an understanding of the historical, cultural and/or industrial contexts of specific adaptations
ILO: Discipline-specific skills
- 4. Demonstrate an ability to analyse film of different periods and cultures and to relate its concerns and its modes of expression to its historical and cultural contexts
- 5. Demonstrate their skills in close formal, thematic, generic and authorial analysis of different kinds of films
- 6. Demonstrate skills in research and evaluation of relevant critical and historical materials for the study of film
- 7. Demonstrate an ability to understand and analyse relevant theoretical ideas, and to apply these ideas to film
ILO: Personal and key skills
- 8. Through seminar work and presentations, demonstrate advanced communication skills and an ability to work both individually and in groups
- 9. Through essay-writing, demonstrate appropriate research and bibliographic skills, an advanced capacity to construct a coherent, substantiated argument and a capacity to write clear and correct prose
- 10. Through research, seminar discussion, and essay writing demonstrate a capacity to question assumptions, to distinguish between fact and opinion, and critically to reflect on their own learning process
Syllabus plan
Whilst the content may vary from year to year, it is envisioned that it will cover some or all of the following topics:
- Theories of Adaptation
- Adaptation and Authorship
- The Practices of Adaptation
- Adaptation and Intermediality
- Genres in Adaptation
- Adaptation and the creative industries
- Adaptation as a trans-cultural process
Learning activities and teaching methods (given in hours of study time)
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 71 | 229 | 0 |
Details of learning activities and teaching methods
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled learning and teaching | 11 | Lectures |
| Scheduled learning and teaching | 5 | Workshops |
| Scheduled learning and teaching | 22 | Seminars |
| Scheduled learning and teaching | 33 | Film screenings |
| Guided independent study | 33 | Study group preparation and meetings |
| Guided independent study | 70 | Seminar preparation (individual) |
| Guided independent study | 126 | Reading, research and essay preparation |
Formative assessment
| Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contribution to online writing tasks | Total: approx. 800-1200 words | 1-10 | Group feedback online |
Summative assessment (% of credit)
| Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
|---|---|---|
| 90 | 0 | 10 |
Details of summative assessment
| Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adaptation case study | 45 | Portfolio to total of 2000 words | 1-10 | Feedback sheet with opportunity for tutorial follow up |
| Essay | 45 | 2000 words | 1-10 | Feedback sheet with opportunity for tutorial follow up |
| Module participation | 10 | Continuous | 10 | Oral feedback with opportunity for office hours follow-up |
Details of re-assessment (where required by referral or deferral)
| Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adaptation case study | Adaptation case study 2000 words | 1-10 | Referral/deferral period |
| Essay | Essay 2000 words | 1-10 | Referral/deferral period |
| Module participation | 1000 word response to posted online writing tasks. | 10 | Oral feedback with opportunity for office hours follow-up |
Re-assessment notes
Deferral – if you miss an assessment for certificated reasons judged acceptable by the Mitigation Committee, you will normally be either deferred in the assessment or an extension may be granted. The mark given for a re-assessment taken as a result of deferral will not be capped and will be treated as it would be if it were your first attempt at the assessment.
Referral – if you have failed the module overall (i.e. a final overall module mark of less than 40%) you will be required to submit a further assessment as necessary. If you are successful on referral, your overall module mark will be capped at 40%.
Indicative learning resources - Basic reading
Core Reading:
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- James M Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1860)
- Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca (1938)
- Daphne du Maurier, ‘The Birds’ (1952) from The Birds and Other Stories (2004)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1606)
- Linda Hutcheon A Theory of Adaptation: Second Edition, New York and London: Routledge, 2012 (also available on Kindle)
Secondary Reading:
- Timothy Corrigan, Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader. New York and London: Routledge, 2012
- Simone Murray, The Adaptation Industry: The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation. New York and London: Routledge, 2011
- Robert Stam and Alessandra Raengo, A Companion to Literature and Film. Oxford, Blackwell, 2007
- Steven Price, The Screenplay: Authorship, Theory and Criticism. London: Palgrave, 2010
- Cristina Della Colletta, When Stories Travel: Cross Cultural Encounters Between Fiction and Film. John Hopkins University Press, 2012
- Mark Thornton Burnett, Shakespeare and World Cinema. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012
Sample Films:
- The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann, 2013)
- The Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman, 1964)
- The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
- Great Expectations (David Lean, 1946)
- Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)
Module has an active ELE page?
Yes
Indicative learning resources - Web based and electronic resources
Indicative learning resources - Other resources
- Archival sources in the University of Exeter Heritage Collections: http://as.exeter.ac.uk/library/about/special/
- Film-related collections in The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture: http://as.exeter.ac.uk/library/about/special/bdc/
Available as distance learning?
No
Origin date
16/01/2013
Last revision date
23/07/2020
Key words search
Adaptation, film, literature, graphic novel, visual culture, creative industries, multimedia, cross cultural, translation
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