English Studies

G R A D U A T E D E G R E E P R O G R A M M E : E N G L I S H S T U D I E S
Year of study Second Semester Three
ECTS
(Number of
credits allocated)
Name of
lecturer
Learning
outcomes and
competences
3 ECTS
Contact hours (25 seminars + 5 advisory hours) = 0.75 credits.
Student study time (67.5 hours) = 2.25 credits.
Jurica Pavičić, MA, Senior Lecturer
Brian Willems, Assistant
After the completion of the course, the student will have developed and
applied an in-depth understanding of key concepts and theoretical and
practical approaches to cinematic adaptations of a wide variety of literary
sources. This will have been done through a thorough analysis of both text
and film via a number of contemporary thinkers in film and other
disciplines.
Prerequisites The student should have previously completed a course of Introduction to
Literary Studies or an equivalent course.
Course contents Students will work through an in-depth understanding of such key concepts
of literary adaptation as fidelity, implied author, off-screen space, the voice,
narrative presence, enunciation, cinematic codes and subcodes, and timelapse.
These will be applied through a close reading of both the literary
source and cinematic adaptation(s). Students will approach the field of
adaptation via such thinkers as Michel Chion, Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Žižek,
James Monoco and others.
The cinematic adaptations of the following literary texts are likely to be
discussed:
Shakespeare, Hamlet; J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice; J. Conrad, Heart of
Darkness; G. Greene, The Quiet American; V. Nabokov, Lolita; H.
Recommended
reading
Supplementary
reading
Kureishi, My Beautiful Laundrette; C. Palahniuk, Fight Club.
Palahniuk, C. (1996). Fight Club. New York, W.W. Norton & Co.
Mann, T. (1998). Death in Venice and other tales. New York, Viking.
Brontë, E. (2003). Wuthering Heights: the 1847 text, backgrounds and
contexts, criticism. A Norton critical edition. New York, Norton.
Nabokov, V. (1991). The Annotated Lolita. New York, Vintage Books.
Clowes, D. (2008). Ghost World. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books.
Winterson, J. (1987). Oranges are not the only fruit. New York, Atlantic
Monthly Press.
Campbell, J. W. (1976). Who Goes There?: Seven Tales of Science-fiction.
Westport, Hyperion Press.
Potocki, J. (1996). The manuscript found in Saragossa. London, Penguin.
Script
Chion, M. (1999). The Voice in Cinema. New York: Columbia University
Press.
Manovich, L. (2002). The Language of New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press.
McFarlan, B. (1996). Novel to Film: An Introduction to the Theory of
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