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CINE 117 Shakespeare on Film
This lecture/discussion course explores the range of meanings and experiments with artistic form that Shakespeare’s plays can generate. The class will read five plays and then analyze at least two film/video adaptations of each. The plays will be examined as open ended scripts originally written for live performance; the films will then be analyzed in terms of how Shakespeare can be transformed to meet different cultural and contextual demands of the screen. Students will therefore learn how the bard’s work, compiled about four centuries ago, still speaks to us about gender, race and class relations, or about fascism, power, and colonialism. The course is thus an ‘intensive’ one, directed towards acquiring critical skills for play reading and film analysis. It does not aim to give an exhaustive historical account of Shakespeare on screen. Weekly discussion sections will hone these practices as students share their responses to the plays and their adaptations. Course Expectations: Lively in class participation, weekly quizzes, two mid-length papers, mid-term, and final. 3 hours.
This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a
Literature and the Arts course.
[NOTE: Same as ENGL 117; home department: English.]
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Unit for Cinema Studies
rleskosk@uiuc.edu
10.4.2007 rjl |
