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Course Description: Literature on Film*
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Course Description: Literature on Film*

Literature on Film*

52-2690

Class concerns the relationship between written and filmed versions of a story, novel, or play. Course explores how character development, plot, narrative, symbols, and language are translated from text to film. To facilitate analysis, students acquire a basic vocabulary for discussing literature and film. Instructors may focus on a particular theme, such as the love story, fantasy, or mythology. Works studied have been as diverse as The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke.

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* Prerequisite Required.