James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2002

CN2018:04

*NOTE* Literature into Film

Townsville

HECS Band 1

26 hours workshops. Semester 2.

Available to all students with 3 units of level 1 subjects. This subject, together with other CN subjects, 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 four minor assignments (40%); workshop participation (20%); major assignment (40%).