SWAN 425 - Factual and Fictional Adaptation

3 credits
3 lecture hours.

Through readings, screenings, and applied theory, the course contrasts literary and visual storytelling forms for an understanding of why literature and even theatre resist film. The course introduces film narrative structure as a temporal form that often requires the condensation and compression of novels, or the expansion of short stories and graphic comics into movies. Students are required to adapt their own original work from literature or other artistic forms to a short screenplay.

Prerequisite(s) SWAN 335 or permission of Instructor required to register
Offered (AS NEEDED)