FR3079 From Text to Screen: Novels and their Film Adaptations

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

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SCQF level

SCQF level 9

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Planned timetable

To be arranged.

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Module coordinator

Dr E R Laügt

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Module Staff

Dr Elodie Laugt

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Module description

This module will focus on filmic adaptations of literary works, including instances of transpositions from French texts into films whose main language is English and vice versa. Emphasis will be placed on the specificities and differences between film and literary text as well as their similarities. Whilst addressing questions about narrative and representation, this module will engage with the political dimensions of the process of appropriation at play in adaptation, in particular in the light of the development of postcolonial and feminist studies. It will lead to a discussion and analysis of the question of French and Francophone identity and its evolution both in literary and visual culture, and in relation to adaptation as an ensemble of transcultural practices.

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

3-hour Written Examination = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1.5 hours and 1 surgery hour.