Comparative Literature 690S - The Cinematic and the Literary

Rather than a course on the by now well-trodden topic of literary adaptation in film, this graduate seminar seeks to look at the literary in cinema, and the cinematic in literature, by using straightforward literary adaptations as well as indirect reappropriations of a medium by the other. In the process, the fluid boundaries of film, drama, and novels as media will be brought to light, but we will also see a set of fundamental traits that may be ascribed to one medium or the other, as part of the tradition, history, or each medium's "genetic" makeup.