IDS 3457 Fall 2019 Johnson

This is a course about adaptation, medievalism and the “Reel Middle Ages.” We will learn about the theory and practice of film adaptation in general, and the transformation of medieval texts to film in particular. Some of the questions that we will seek to answer include: What makes an adaptation an adaption? Is adaptation a genre? What is ‘the medieval imaginary’ and what does it have to do with filmic medievalisms?