COD 2008 - G460

Film Club - August Session

Teachers at TTC and Language and Literature Teachers.

1 sessions, start: 23-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2008
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. María Cristina Llorente
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ARS 45.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 23 August 2008 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Facilitator/s

María Cristina Llorente

Maria Cristina has been a tenured lecturer of Language and Culture II , III and IV at Instituto Superior del Profesorado "Presbitero A.M. Sáenz "Lomas de Zamora. Director of Language Centre Graham Greene, Longchamps. She has attended courses on Cinema Studies with theorists Eduardo A. Russo, Carlos Gamerro and Javier Porta Fuz. English Literature and Film Studies tenured lecturer at Universidad Nacional del Litoral 2005-2006, and Tenured Lecturer of Literary Theory at Universidad Nacional del Litoral 2009. Licenciada en Inglés UNL (2009). Final thesis on the film The Silence of the Lambs. Has attended courses with film director Adrian Caetano and film critic Gustavo Noriega. She has studied Film Criticism at Escuela de Cine de la revista El Amante in Capital Federal.
Teachers at TTC and Language and Literature Teachers.
This is basically an introduction to adaptation theory with particular attention paid to the intertextual relation between literature and film. During the year the attendants to the course will be reading part of the research carried out in this field by scholars Robert Stam and Linda Hutcheon Several film adaptations from Shakespeare will be discussed during the first part of the year. In the second term film adaptations from 18th and 19th century British novels will be explored. The films to be discussed are: "Richard III" directed by R Loncraine, "Romeo and Juliet", directed by Baz Lurhman, "The Merchant of Venice", directed by Michael Radford, "Macbeth", directed by Roman Polanski, "Throne of Blood", directed by Akira Kurosawa, "Pride and Prejudice" directed by Joel Wright, "Bride and Prejudice" directed by Gurinder Chadha and "Wuthering Heights" directed by Suri. B. Krishnamma, MTV version.
The concept of adaptation as semiotic transposition, appropriation, writing back, recreation, translation or betrayal. The roles played by the film crew in the process of transposition. Film language. Point of view. Text and subtext. Body language. The concept of physicality. Context of production and Context of Receptio of film adaptations.
After a theoretical introduction to the cinematic concepts previously introduced, scenes from the films mentioned above will be watched and discussed in the sessions.
- Hutcheon, L. (2006) A Theory of Adaptation London. New York: Routledge. - Stam, R. and Arengo, A. (2005) Literature and Film. A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation. Blackwell Publishing.
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