COURSE DESCRIPTIONThis course examines the relationship between writing and cinema focusing on film/television adaptations of classic and contemporary literature. We will read novels, short stories and poems, screen their visual adaptations, and explore the choices, challenges and possibilities involved in the transformation from text to film. We will examine how the relationship between text and cinema has influenced and transformed narrative and storytelling. Students will engage in creative and critical writing assignments that will culminate in an adaptation of a story/novel/poem/essay into a short screenplay sample OR a film into a story/novel/poem/essay.Some of the books/films/television series may include Sally Rooney’s Normal People (Hulu series), Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu series), Jane Austen’s Emma (Autumn de Wilde’s 2019 film version), Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger (Netflix film), Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2007 theatrical film) and Ginsberg's Howl (2010 theatrical film.)

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