LMKB_a415 Literature and Cult/Quality TV Series

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Petr Bubeníček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Petr Vokřínek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Petr Bubeníček, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Veronika Bromová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 10:00–11:40 C34, except Mon 13. 11.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
TYP_STUDIA(ND)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 200 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 15/200, only registered: 0/200, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/200
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main focus of the course is examining the transfer of literature into TV forms, that is, a transfer of a verbal unit to audio-visual medium. The opening lessons will be devoted to the theory of film and TV adaptation, and medium transfer in general. Furthermore, the course examines scholarship concerned with TV, articulates the specifics of TV mediality, based on text, technology and cultural and economic conditions; the phenomenon of quality/complex/cult TV. Introduction will also include basic problems of serial narration (i.e. transmedia serialization).
Interpretation of selected TV adaptations will examine the relationship of adaptation to different texts and media (literature, film, videogames, comics, etc.). The course will be concerned with the manifestations of particular kinds of intermedia references, appropriations, remediation, and with the examination of their impact within the process of reception. Contemporary adaptation studies are open to exploring broader social/political/economic/technological conditions of cultural production and reception (the phenomenon of recipient communities – fans – which tend to be especially active online). In keeping with these trends, the course interprets adaptation not only by analysing individual finished products, but also as complex cultural process.
Learning outcomes
Having finished the course, students will have been introduced to the various theoretical approaches to adaptation:
- students will know the terminology of film and TV studies,
- students will understand the specific mediality of television (within the discussion about its intermedia and intramedia nature),
- students will acquire various interpretation methods for examining adaptations, and will therefore be able to consider adaptations in ways not based on fidelity to the literary pretext, and interpret them accordingly,
- students will be able to consider TV adaptations in broader cultural context.
Syllabus
  • 8.9 Petr Bubeníček: Introduction 25.9. Petr Bubenicek: Adaptation Studies 1 2.10. Petr Bubeníček: Adaptation Studies 2 9.10. Petr Bubeníček: Television series 16.10. Petr Bubeníček: Olive Kitteridge 23.10. Petr Bubeníček: Olive Kitteridge 30.10. Petr Bubeníček: Hra o trůny 6.11. Petr Bubeníček: Hra o trůny 20.11. Petr Vokřínek: Sňatky z rozumu 27.11. Petr Vokřínek: Sňatky z rozumu 4.12. Petr Vokřínek: F. L. Věk 11.12. Petr Vokřínek: F. L. Věk 18.12. test
Literature
    required literature
  • MITTEL, Jason. Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling. New York: New York University Press, 2015. 416 s. ISBN 9780814769607.
  • KOKEŠ, Radomír D. Světy na pokračování. Rozbor možností seriálového vyprávění (Worlds To Be Continued. Analysing Possibilities of Serial Narrativity). Praha: Filip Tomáš – Akropolis, 2016, 240 pp. ISBN 978-80-7470-146-7. Autorovy stránky o knize. info
    recommended literature
  • ABBOTT, Stacey (ed.). The Cult TV Book. London: I. B. Tauris, 2010. 273 s. ISBN 9781848850262.
  • LEITCH, Thomas (ed.). Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 784 s. ISBN 9780199331000.
  • MURRAY, Simone. The adaptation industry : the cultural economy of contemporary literary adaptation. 1. pub. New York: Routledge, 2012, xvi, 253. ISBN 9780415999038. info
  • CARDULLO, Bert. Formal matters : studies in film adaptation and (re)evaluation. Washington, D.C.: New Academia, 2011, xiii, 430. ISBN 9780983689928. info
  • Beyond adaptation : essays on radical transformations of original works. Edited by Phyllis Frus - Christy Williams. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2010, x, 216. ISBN 9780786442232. info
  • DEBONA, Guerric. Film adaptation in the Hollywood studio era. Urbana: University of Illinois press, 2010, x, 195. ISBN 9780252077371. info
  • Redefining adaptation studies. Edited by Dennis R. Cutchins - James M. Welsh - Laurence Raw. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2010, xiii, 182. ISBN 9780810872981. info
  • Authorship in film adaptation. Edited by Jack Boozer. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008, viii, 341. ISBN 0292718535. info
  • In/fidelity : essays on film adaptation. Edited by David L. Kranz - Nancy C. Mellerski. 1st pub. Newcastle: Cambridge scholars publishing, 2008, viii, 251. ISBN 9781847184023. info
  • GERAGHTY, Christine. Now a major motion picture : film adaptations of literature and drama. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008, viii, 223. ISBN 9780742538214. info
  • CHATMAN, Seymour. Příběh a diskurs : narativní struktura v literatuře a filmu. Translated by Milan Orálek. Vyd. 1. Brno: Host, 2008, 328 s. ISBN 9788072942602. info
  • LEITCH, Thomas M. Film adaptation and its discontents : from Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ. Baltimore: John Hopkins University press, 2007, xi, 354. ISBN 9780801885655. info
  • Quality TVcontemporary American television and beyond. Edited by Janet McCabe - Kim Akass. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007, xx, 292 p. ISBN 9781845115111. info
  • The Cambridge companion to literature on screen. Edited by Deborah Cartmell - Imelda Whelehan. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, xi, 273. ISBN 9780521614863. info
  • The literature/film reader : issues of adaptation. Edited by James M. Welsh - Peter Lev. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2007, xxviii, 36. ISBN 9780810859494. info
  • HUTCHEON, Linda. A theory of adaptation. New York: Routledge, 2006, xviii, 232. ISBN 0415967953. info
  • HUTCHEON, Linda. A theory of adaptation. New York: Routledge, 2006, xviii, 232. ISBN 0415967953. info
  • DESMOND, John M. and Peter HAWKES. Adaptation : studying film and literature. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2006, xii, 256. ISBN 007282204X. info
  • STAM, Robert. François Truffaut and friends : modernism, sexuality, and film adaptation. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006, xvi, 239. ISBN 0813537258. info
  • From camera lens to critical lens : a cellection of best essays on film adaptation. Edited by Rebecca Housel. 1st pub. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006, xii, 230. ISBN 1847180310. info
  • Books in motion : adaptation, intertextuality, authorship. Edited by Mireia Aragay. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005, 289 s. ISBN 9042019573. info
  • Literature and film : a guide to the theory and practice of film adaptation. Edited by Robert Stam - Alessandra Raengo. First published. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2005, xiv, 359. ISBN 0631230556. info
  • STAM, Robert. Literature through film : realism, magic, and the art of adaptation. 1st pub. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2005, xvii, 388. ISBN 140510287X. info
  • The contemporary television series. Edited by Michael Hammond - Lucy Mazdon. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005, xii, 260. ISBN 0748619011. info
  • Tvořivé zrady : současné polské myšlení o filmu a audiovizuální kultuře. Edited by Petr Mareš - Petr Szczepanik. Vyd. v ČR 1. Praha: Národní filmový archiv, 2005, 500 s. ISBN 8070041196. info
  • A companion to literature and film. Edited by Robert Stam - Alessandra Raengo. 1st pub. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, xv, 463. ISBN 9780631230533. info
  • THOMPSON, Kristin. Storytelling in film and television. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003, xiii, 172. ISBN 0674010876. info
  • CHATMAN, Seymour. Dohodnuté termíny : rétorika narativu ve fikci a filmu. V Olomouci: Univerzita Palackého, 2000, 259 s. ISBN 8024401754. info
  • Film adaptation. Edited by James Naremore. 1st pub. London: Athlone Press, 2000, x, 258. ISBN 0485300931. info
  • Adaptations from text to screen, screen to text. Edited by Imelda Whelehan - Deborah Cartmell. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 1999, xvii, 247. ISBN 0415167388. info
  • CORRIGAN, Timothy. Film and literature : an introduction and reader. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1999, x, 374. ISBN 0135265428. info
  • MCFARLANE, Brian. Novel to film : an introduction to the theory of adaptation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996, viii, 279. ISBN 0198711506. info
  • STAM, Robert, Robert BURGOYNE and Sandy FLITTERMAN-LEWIS. New vocabularies in film semiotics : structuralism, post-structuralism and beyond. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 1992, xv, 239. ISBN 041506595X. info
  • Film and literature : a comparative approach to adaptation. Edited by Wendell M. Aycock - Michael Schoenecke. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-89672-159-0. info
  • KLEIN, Michael and Gillian PARKER. The English Novel and the Movies. New York: Frederik Invar Publishing, 1981, 383 pp. info
Teaching methods
The lectures include commentary, analysis, and instructive interpretation that demonstrate the theory.
Assessment methods
The course concludes with a written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020.
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