This course, taught in English, aims to show students how ideas are mediated through different arts. The course takes a comparative approach, focussing on examples the cinematic adaptation of English literature.
Regarding aesthetics, students will consider narrative construction in order to understand the deep tensions existing between literature and cinema, despite apparent narrative compatiblity between the two arts. This will also allow us to take into account technological developments in cinematic production and the effect these have produced on the mise-en-scène of the works treated during the course.
From a cultural point of view, we will reflect on the development of ideas in relation to societal movements and changes in order to underline how ideas are spread and how representations transform over time and space. Among other questions, students will consider anthropological aspects linked to the transformation of ideas and cultural information.
The corpus of study is naturally constituted by classical and modern English literature, including works of popular culture. This will include thematic case studies as well focussing on individual authors and their work.
After a theoretical introduction about the major questions related to cinematic adapation of literature and the context of the works studied, each session will consider questions brought up by them.
- Enseignant: David GOLDIE