Master
2023/2024
Research Seminar "Semiosis of Screen Adaptation: At the Crossroads of Literature and Cinema"
Type:
Elective course (Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication)
Area of studies:
Linguistics
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
Where:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
1 year, 2 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Master’s programme:
Иностранные языки и межкультурная коммуникация
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
24
Course Syllabus
Abstract
In Russian higher education, there are no courses centered on adaptation as a form of intersemiotic translation, by means of which a literary material is transposed into another semiotic environment making it possible to highlight a socio-cultural experience that the audience would find valuable and relevant. The course in question is supposed to narrow this gap. It will present adaptation studies as an interdisciplinary field of research emerging at the intersection of semiotics, translation theory, literary criticism, film and theater studies, mediology, sociology, cultural, postcolonial and gender studies. Also, it will explore adaptation processes and their creative motivations, introduce students to key contemporary approaches to adaptation and systematize knowledge that will allow them to see more clearly the role of film adaptation in the modern cultural process.