CJBC137 Selected Film Adaptations of Novels

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Petr Bubeníček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Timetable
Wed 16:40–19:55 B32
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Určeno pro studenty, kteří již absolvovali zkoušku z teorie literatury. Tento předpoklad platí pouze pro studenty české literatury. Podmínkou není absolvování Teorie filmové adaptace.
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 60 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/60, only registered: 0/60, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/60
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course deals with the relationships between literary and film works. Thorough interpretation of a literary work and its film version will constitute the essential part of the seminar. The participants will trace the film adaptative methods, shifts of both meaning and style, differences in narrative techniques and treatment of time, aesthetical structures of the literary text and film, social function of the work etc. Six film-projections will be part of the seminar.
The aims of the course are following:
to introduce main theoretical approaches to the students,
to provide the students with terms from the field of the theory of adaptation,
to teach the students the strategies useful for interpreting selected film adaptations of novels.
Syllabus
  • Seminars will focus on these literary and film works:
  • Deník venkovského faráře (Georges Bernanos, Robert Bresson),
  • Žert (Milan Kundera, Jaromil Jireš),
  • Démanty noci (Arnošt Lustig, Jan Němec),
  • Pohrdání (Alberto Moravia, Jean-Luc Godard),
  • O rodičích a dětech (Emil Hakl, Vladimír Michálek),
  • Pornografie (Witold Gombrowicz, Jan Jakub Kolski).
Literature
  • CHATMAN, Seymour. Dohodnuté termíny : rétorika narativu ve fikci a filmu. V Olomouci: Univerzita Palackého, 2000, 259 s. ISBN 8024401754. info
  • CHATMAN, Seymour. Existenty příběhu: Úvaha o postavě a prostředí ve filmovém a literárním narativu. Přel. Milan Orálek. Aluze, 2005, roč. 9, č. 3, s. 75 – 101.
  • CHATMAN, Seymour. Story and Discourse. Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1980, 277 s.
  • MCFARLANE, Brian. Novel to film : an introduction to the theory of adaptation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996, viii, 279. ISBN 0198711506. info
  • CORRIGAN, Timothy. Film and literature :an introduction and reader. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1999, x, 374 s. ISBN 0-13-526542-8. info
  • HUTCHEON, Linda. A Theory of Adaptation. New York : Routledge, 2006. 232 s.
  • STAM, Robert (ed.) - RAENGO, Alessandra (ed.). Literature and Film. A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation. 1. vyd. Malden : Blackwell Publishing, 2005. 359 s.
  • SZCZEPANIK, Petr. (ed. spolu s Petrem Marešem) Tvořivé zrady. Antologie současného polského myšlení o filmu a audiovizuální kultuře. Praha: NFA, 2005, 500 pp. ISBN 80-7004-119-6. info
  • MACUROVÁ, Alena and Petr MAREŠ. Text a komunikace : jazyk v literárním díle a ve filmu. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1993. info
  • PŘÁDNÁ, Stanislava, Zdena ŠKAPOVÁ and Jiří CIESLAR. Démanty všednosti :český a slovenský film 60. let : kapitoly o nové vlně. Vyd. 1. Praha: Pražská scéna, 2002, 387 s. ISBN 80-86102-17-3. info
  • HAMES, Peter. The Czechoslovak new wave. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1985, x, 322. ISBN 0520048598. info
  • HORTON, Andrew – MAGRETTA, Joan. Modern European Filmmakers and the Art of Adaptation. New York : Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1981. 383 s.
  • MRAVCOVÁ, Marie. Od Oidipa k Francouzově milence :světová litaratura ve filmu : interpretace z let 1982-1998. Vyd. 1. Praha: Národní filmový archiv, 2001, 371 s. ISBN 80-7004-099-8. info
  • MRAVCOVÁ, Marie. Literatura ve filmu. Praha: Melantrich, 1990. ISBN 8070230622. info
  • MONACO, James. Jak číst film : svět filmů, médií a multimédií : umění, technologie, jazyk, dějiny, teorie. Translated by Tomáš Liška - Jan Valenta, Illustrated by David Lindroth. 1. vyd. Praha: Albatros, 2004, 735 s. ISBN 9788000014104. info
  • RIMMON-KENAN, Shlomith. Poetika vyprávění : Narrative fiction : contemporary poetics (Orig.). Translated by Vanda Pickettová. Vyd. 1. Brno: Host, 2001, 174 s. : i. ISBN 80-7294-004-X. info
  • MÁLEK, Petr. Teorie intertextu a literární kontexty filmu I. Iluminace, 1993, roč. 5, č. 2, s. 7 – 31.
  • MÁLEK, Petr. Teorie intertextu a literární kontexty filmu II. Iluminace, 1993, roč. 5, č. 3, s. 7 - 36.
  • KLEIN, Michael (ed.) – Parker, Gillian (ed.). The English Novel and the Movies. New York : Frederik Invar Publishing, 1981. 383 s.
  • WAGNER, Geoffrey. The Novel and the Cinema. Rutherford : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1975. 394 s.
  • KOZLOFF, Sarah. Invisible Storytellers: Voice-over Narration in American Fiction Film. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1988. 167 s.
Assessment methods
In order to be given credit the students are obliged to fulfil following conditions: to write and submit an essay and to prove an active contribution to the lessons.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010.
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