FRN 411
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Adaptation: Page, Stage and Screen
This course examines the interactions between written texts and their theatrical and/or filmic
adaptations. Students expand their experience of literature and cinema, and reinforce their rhetorical skills
while learning specific vocabularies pertaining to the literary, theatrical and filmic domains. Students
critically and creatively reflect on the respective aesthetic qualities of these media. “Adaptation: Page, Stage
and Screen” fulfills an essential interdisciplinary goal. Students: learn fundamental concepts of the written and
filmic texts; understand how one discipline can supplement, impact and support another to create new meaning;
recognize the complexities and ambiguities occurring when several academic disciplines encounter: what changes in
the process of adapting a written play into its scenic version and then into a fiction film.
Prerequisites
Completion of a Study Abroad program in French, or Instructor Consent.
