Cinema and Fiction

Description

Demonstrate understanding of cultural and historical background of the films and fiction under study. Understand how to connect novels and film adaptations to critical and theoretical debates Explain and compare/contrast elements of fiction adaptations into film. Identify and discuss formal aspects of both novels and film adaptations. Apply logical order in writing critical appreciation of the both fiction and its adaptation into film. Develop skills in literary and cultural analysis. Distinguish types and styles of cinematography and narration. Examine how the films under study responded to the social contexts in which they were produced. Analyze and compare different themes and techniques of film and fiction. Criticize according to schools of criticism.

Program

Media Department

Objectives

• This course is an introduction to the art of both cinema and fiction. They are both narrative forms of communication. Both kinds of texts can be explored as not only reflecting but also producing and sometimes resisting the cultures from which they come. Fictional texts that have been adapted into films can be used for analyzing discourses related to race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, disability, species, and environment at particular historical and cultural moments. This course explores these kinds of issues in the context of cultural studies and critical theory, while also paying attention to genre conventions and elements of narrative form.