Fall 2024 Film AF6055 section 001

Adaptation

Call Number 13899
Day & Time
Location
R 10:00am-1:00pm
511 Dodge Hall
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Galt V Niederhoffer
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

This is a fast-paced writing, survey and workshop course that will empower writers to define the formal ideals of screenwriting by investigating film adaptations of novels and short stories. The course will culminate in the writing of a short pitch document. This course is at once a survey of the twentieth century American Film, a survey of the Twentieth Century American novel, and a course for writers. We will distill the craft of screenwriting by looking through the prism of adaption in order to understand which elements of the novel translate into film, and why. We will consider novels with the mercenary detachment of a screenwriter, scouring for scraps with value for a screenplay. As we compare the original text with the finished film, we will distill the essence of the screenplay form. What is plot, action, dialog, metaphor? How do we converge these goals? We will decipher, with the clinical eye of a detective, what the screenwriter took from the novel and what they left behind. And in doing this, we will reach an understanding of the formal tenets of an American film.

Web Site Vergil
Department Film
Enrollment 18 students (30 max) as of 4:06PM Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Subject Film
Number AF6055
Section 001
Division School of the Arts
Open To Schools of the Arts
Section key 20243FILM6055R001