Лучший по критерию «Полезность курса для расширения кругозора и разностороннего развития»

Лучший по критерию «Новизна полученных знаний»

Кто читает:: Школа иностранных языков

Статус:: Курс по выбору

Когда читается:: 1-й курс, 2 модуль

Преподаватель

Нуриев Виталий Александрович

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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.

Learning Objectives

To provide extensive knowledge on film adaption as semiotic production of complex nature
To develop students’ research skills in the field of adaptation studies
To further develop students’ critical thinking skills in the context of film adaptation
To teach students to analyze film adaptation and its socio-cultural background encompassing different media interactions

Expected Learning Outcomes

Students will adhere to approaches from both traditional and emerging paradigms to see how film adaptation may be researched.
Students will borrow insights and adopt research approaches from the fields of semiotics, visual aesthetics, translation theory, literary criticism, film studies, and mediology.
Students will review contemporary socio-cultural perspectives on film adaptation and evaluate critically the role that adaptations hold today.
Students will review, analyze, and evaluate the context, in which adaptation studies evolve.
Students will review, analyze, and evaluate the question of authorship in film adaptation from the point of view of intertextuality.
Students will analyze distinctive features specific to film adaptations.
Students will learn conventions and laws of film adaptation in various genres.

Course Contents

Adaptation today
Adaptation as a stand-alone genre
Adaptation and film studies
Adaptation, semiotics, and translation theory
Adaptation and intertextuality
Adaptation for animation
Comic book adaptation
Adaptation and holiday movies

Assessment Elements

Final Examination
The final exam is conducted orally and includes questions covering the materials of the whole course. The final exam materials and criteria can be updated closer to the end of the course, but no later than the terms specified in the HSE University regulating documents.
Essays
The number of essays to be submitted will vary depending on the course dynamics.
Class Participation and Home Assignments
Class participation involves taking part in discussions, debates, round-table talks, case studies; independent preparation for seminars (information search; reading papers; watching videos; annotating and rendering the obtained materials). If a seminar is held online, class participation is graded under the condition that the student keeps their camera on. Online participation via chat only is worth 1 point maximum.
Presentations
The course ends with the presentation session. If a student reads the script of the presentation, they get a warning. If the reading continues, the student gets a zero.

Interim Assessment

2022/2023 2nd module
0.4 * Final Examination + 0.2 * Class Participation and Home Assignments + 0.2 * Essays + 0.2 * Presentations

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Toby Miller, & Robert Stam. (2008). A Companion to Film Theory. [N.p.]: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=231749

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Action figures : men, action films, and contemporary adventure narratives, Gallagher, M., 2006
An introduction to film analysis : technique and meaning in narrative film, Ryan, M., 2012
Auteurs and authorship : a film reader, , 2008
Border crossing : Russian literature into film, , 2016

Authors

BAKULEV ALEKSEI VALENTINOVICH
NURIEV VITALIY ALEKSANDROVICH

Магистерская программа «Иностранные языки и межкультурная коммуникация»

Semiosis of Screen Adaptations: At the Crossroads of Literature and Cinema