ENG 4934 Fall 2019 Johnson

Text to film, film to text, text to video game, video game to film, amusement park ride to film and back again. These are only a few of the varied directions and media from and to which narrative content has been and continues to be transported. By studying fictional texts and their adaptations, we will analyze the decisions adapters make in translating works from one medium to another. The course will examine the source texts and film adaptations of works drawn from and translated into a variety of genres, including short stories, novels, novella, a modern play, a Shakespearean play, graphic novels, and video games. Each pair of works, a source and its adaptation, will provide an illuminating case study, and taken together, the works selected demonstrate both close and loose adaptations, “classic” and recent productions, and a wide range of approaches to adaptation.