OVERVIEW
In the course of the semester, you will be engaged in the creation of adapted work while exploring the key questions that underpin a reasoned and imaginative approach to making new originals out of found literary objects.
PURPOSE
The course examines and investigates the challenges of a field that is concerned with the “transport of form and/or content from a source to a result in a different media context.” The questions that arrive in adaptation have moved away from the dichotomy of literature and theater/film toward a focus on multidirectional flows across a transmedia model, concentrating less on what has been lost by a text during the process of adaptation, and more on what the text has gained by taking on a new form or variation examining audience/player interaction and world-building.
Class exercises and projects will include the study and exploration of genres. Offering students new insights into creating through both adaptation and appropriation. We will explore what happens to the content when it is subject to a variety of forces dictated by
o the nature of the source text
o the reason for adapting the text
o medium, market, and culture into which it is adapted
In the course of the semester, you will be engaged in the creation of adapted work while exploring the key questions that underpin a reasoned and imaginative approach to making new originals out of found literary objects.
PURPOSE
The course examines and investigates the challenges of a field that is concerned with the “transport of form and/or content from a source to a result in a different media context.” The questions that arrive in adaptation have moved away from the dichotomy of literature and theater/film toward a focus on multidirectional flows across a transmedia model, concentrating less on what has been lost by a text during the process of adaptation, and more on what the text has gained by taking on a new form or variation examining audience/player interaction and world-building.
Class exercises and projects will include the study and exploration of genres. Offering students new insights into creating through both adaptation and appropriation. We will explore what happens to the content when it is subject to a variety of forces dictated by
o the nature of the source text
o the reason for adapting the text
o medium, market, and culture into which it is adapted
- Teacher: David Bassuk