James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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CN2018:04

Literature into Film

Townsville

Prerequisites: 3 units of level 1 subjects
Inadmissable Subject Combination: CN3018

26 hours workshops. Second semester.

Available to all students with 3 units of level 1 subjects. This subject, together with other CN subjects and VA1012, can form part of a 3-level strand in cinema studies. The lecturer in this subject should be consulted for further details.

Staff: Dr C Mann.

A selection of literary works and of the films that were drawn from them.

Learning Objectives:

  1. an understanding of the working of certain literary and filmic conventions such as narration, description and characterisation.

Assessment by minor weekly assignments (40%); workshop participation (20%); major assignment (40%).


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