ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: English and German Philology
Areas: English Philology
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
• To understand the intersections between literature and other artistic manifestations and, in particular, the process of adapting literary texts into films.
• To understand the factors that intervene in adaptation:
- Different technical devices;
- Different artistic languages;
- Different historical and cultural contexts;
- Different modes of production and circulation;
- Different ideological implications;
• To learn how to comment artistic texts.
• To achieve a better understanding of literary texts through their comparison with versions thereof in other artistic manifestations.
• To improve student's communicative skills.
General Contents:
1.- Analysis of the relationship between literature and other artistic manifestations such as cinema, painting or photography. Due to its privileged relation to literature, special attention will be paid to the intertextual and intermedial dialogue between literature and cinema.
2.- Comparative study of the different devices and languages deployed by different artistic media and their effect on the adaptation of literary texts.
3.- Historical, political and cultural contextualization of the literary texts under scrutiny and of their reinterpretation in other artistic manifestations.
4.- Analysis of the ideological implications behind the transposition of a given literary text to a sociocultural and historical context different from the one featuring in the original.
Specific Contents:
General Introduction:
- Intersections between literature and other artistic manifestations
- Literature and film
- From literary text to cinema
- General introduction to the language of cinema
- The eye of the camera
- Cinema and Phantasmagoria
Analysis of:
- One play
- One novel
- One short story
- One poem
Basic Bibliography:
Beja, M. (1979). Film and Literature. Longman: New York.
Chatman, Seymour. (1989). Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Hutcheon, Linda. (2006). A Theory of Adaptation. New York: Routledge.
McFarlane, B. (1996). Novel to Film: An Introduction to the Theory of Adaptation. Oxford.
Zizek, Slavoj, Sophie Fiennes (2005). The Pervert’s Guide to cinema.
Complementary Bibliography:
Ambler, E. (1956).” Screenwriting: The Novelist and Films”, Journal of the British Film Academy, 8
Aragay, Mireya (2005): Books in Motion. Adaptation, Intertextuality, Authorship. Amsterdam, New York, Rodopi Arnheim, R. (1990). Coming to Terms: the Rhetoric of narrative in Fiction and Film. Ithaca: Cornell University Press..
Bluestone, G. (1957). Novels into Film. University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles. Carmona, R. (1991,2010). Cómo se comenta un texto fílmico. Madrid: Cátedra.
Cohen, K. (1979). Film and Fiction: the Dynamics of Exchange. Yale University Press: New Haven.
Marcus, F. (ed.) (1971). Film and Literature: Contrasts in Media. Chandler Publishers: Scranton. McDougal, S. (1985). Made into Movies: From Literature to Film. Holt Rinehart and Winston: New York.
Peña A., C. (19912). Literatura y cine: una aproximación comparativa. Madrid: Cátedra.
CB1, CB2, CB3, CB4, CB5
CG1, CG8
General Competences:
• Ability to use previously acquired knowledge.
• Ability to develop autonomous learning.
• Ability to learn from errors.
• Ability to collaborate.
• Ability to deal with multicultural situations respecting the opinions of others.
• Ability to organise ideas and develop them coherently.
• Ability to organise and analyse data from a critical perspective.
• Ability to support different positions based on rational argumentation.
• Ability to engage in conversation and debate in relation to the proposed topics.
• Ability to develop a critical attitude.
Specific Competences:
• Ability to develop comparative analyses.
• Ability to critically analyse the ideological implications behind different adaptations.
This course combines: 1) Lectures, 2) Seminars, and 3) Tutorials
The classes will combine theoretical exposition and practical analysis. Main methodologies:
1) Comparative method: the comparative approach will be the basic heuristic method used in the course to meet the main objectives.
2) Debates centred on topics such as the reasons behind the selection of material in film adaptations, the changes derived from the use of a different language and technical devices in media transpositions, and the ideological implications underlying changes in the film versions of the selected texts.
3) Workshops: practical case studies, script proposals, etc.
The mark breakdown will be as follows:
- Final exam (70%)
- Continuous assessment (30%)
In order to pass the course, students must obtain a minimum mark of 4 out of 10 in the final exam.
Aspects that will be considered in the assessment process:
- Attendance and active participation in class.
- Submission of all the task proposed throughout the course.
- Coherence, cohesion, and critical depth in both the final exam and the assignments submitted throughout the course.
- Assignments must meet the minimum requirements of linguistic correctness (spelling and grammar, punctuation, syntax, lexical precision, or formal register). Deficiencies in these areas will be penalized.
IMPORTANT: Attendance is compulsory. Students failing to attend five or more lectures/seminars without due cause over the semester will be assigned a zero-percentage grade for the continuous assessment component in the calculation of the overall grade for the course. Absences must be notified within 10 days.
These criteria will also apply to the second opportunity (July call).
STUDENTS RETAKING THE COURSE OR EXEMPT FROM CLASS ATTENDANCE:
1.- Those students retaking the course will be assessed according to the above-mentioned system, unless it is impossible for them to attend class. In such cases, they must inform the coordinator about their wish to take the assessment system applied to those students exempt from class attendance (exam – 100%). If students in this situation fail to notify their circumstances at the beginning of the term, they will lose their right to be assessed via a final exam (100%).
2.- Those students who are officially exempt from class attendance (‘dispensa académica’) will have to do a final exam worth 100% of the mark.
Study time (preparation of in-class activities, compulsory readings, tutorials and exam preparation): 100 HOURS.
- Attendance and active participation in class.
- Preparation of reading materials before class.
- Submission of assigned tasks.
If fraudulent practices are detected in assignments or exams of any kind, art. 16 of “Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dosestudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” will apply, which will bring about a direct fail in the subject: “A realización fraudulenta dalgún exercicio ouproba esixida na avaliación dunha materia implicará a cualificación de suspenso na convocatoria correspondente, con independencia do procesodisciplinario que se poida seguir contra o alumno infractor. Considerarase fraudulenta, entre outras, a realización de traballos plaxiados ou obtidos defontes accesibles ao público sen reelaboración ou reinterpretación e sen citas aos autores e das fontes”.
Noemí Pereira Ares
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- noemi.pereira [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
| Wednesday | |||
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| 12:00-13:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | English | D15-Seminar |
| Friday | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | C02 |
| 12:00-13:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | C02 |
| 01.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | D05 |
| 01.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | D05 |
| 06.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | D05 |
| 06.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | D05 |