BA syllabus

Class: 13.30-15.00 Thursday (301)

Assessment:

30% attendance

You’re entitled to two absences per semester without providing sick notes. If you have more than two, please note that your grade will be affected!

70% written assignment (research paper leading to or being part of BA thesis; 2000-3000 words including bibliography; deadline for submission – January 31)

(The course is run by two supervisors. “AR” marked below stands for dr Rasmus and MC for dr Cie?lak)

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Semester I

Week 1 (6 Oct.) AR: Adaptation, translation – introduction

Week 2 (13 Oct.) MC: Shakespeare film adaptations 1 – introduction

Week 3 (20 Oct.) pending

Week 4 (27 Oct.) AR: Shakespeare film adaptations 2 – genre

Week 5 (3 Nov.) MC: Shakespeare film adaptations 3 – offshoots

Week 6 (10 Nov.) AR: Intercultural translation -  remakes, British-American 1: Alfie

Week 7 (17 Nov.) AR: Intercultural translation – remakes, British-American 2: Bedazzled

Week 8 (24 Nov.) MC: Intercultural translation – animated movies for children; translating Monsters Inc.

Week 9 (1 Dec.) MC: Intercultural translation – animated movies for children 2; translating Creature Comforts

Week 10 (8 Dec.) AR: Intermedia translation – screenplays 1

Week 11 (15 Dec.) MC: Postmodern recycyling and recontextualising – translating cultural values; John Gardner’s Grendel

Week 12 (22 Dec.) AR: Intermedia translation – screenplays 2

Week 13 (15 Jan.) MC: Postmodern recycyling and recontextualising – translating patriarchy; Atwood and Carter

Week 14 (12 Jan.) MC & AR: Konsultacje, wybór tematów BA

Week 15 (19 Jan.) MC & AR: Konsultacje, wybór tematów BA

Bibliography for remakes:

1. Constantine Verevis, Film Remakes, Palgrave, 2006.

2. Lucy Mazdon, Encore Hollywood. Remaking French Cinema, BFI, 2000.

3. Jennifer Forrest and Leaonard R. Koos, eds., Dead Ringers. The Remake in Theory and Practice, 2002.

4. Carolyn A. Durham, Culture and Gender in French Films and Their American Remakes, 1998.

 

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