Theatre Arts 234ST - Stage to Screen

Spring
2015
01
4.00
Sarah Sutherland
TTH 02:40PM-03:55PM
Mount Holyoke College
91580
Clapp Laboratory 203
ssutherl@mtholyoke.edu
91385,91580,91078
A study of ten to twelve plays and their film adaptations. Plays are drawn from a range of periods and genres, and films are chosen to show the scope of adaptive approaches from filmed play to radical re-imagining. The course will include readings on the theory and history of theatre-to-film adaptations. Playwrights will likely include Christopher Marlowe, John Gay, Oscar Wilde, Bertolt Brecht, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, Lorraine Hansberry, Edward Albee, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, and David Henry Hwang. Though Shakespeare is not a focus, we will give some comparative attention to particularly influential films of his plays.
Course limited to sophomores, juniors and seniors; Prereq: 4 credits in English or Film Studies or Theatre Arts.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.