Comparative Literature 697S - ST- International Screenplays

This course proposes a survey of celebrated literary and filmic texts produced in a variety of countries (the US, the Soviet Union, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland and South Korea) interrogating the methodologies of filmic adaptation and the national specificities and technical limitations of screenplays/screenwriting. The course will also show samples of actual screenplays in foreign languages, explaining the cultural differences in format, emphasis and presentation of the "medium" that in the shooting script. Please note that this course is not a screenwriting/creative writing class. However, it may be of interest as well to those students who want to learn about techniques and efficient ways of storytelling in the screenplay format.