LITERATURE
Contemporary American Fiction: Text to Film
SPRING LN261
Monday
Tutor: Louise Walsh
Contemporary American fiction plays a pivotal role in American cinema. While political and historical contexts have shaped the transition from text to screen, directorial decisions regarding what to excise and what to include also provide telling new perspectives to the literary works that inspired them. Looking at canonical authors such as Tennessee Williams, Cormac McCarthy and Stephen King, and films from major directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Ethan and Joel Coen and Sofia Coppola, this course will examine the provocative implications of the adaptation process and assess the nature of the relationship between visual and text.
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BELFIELD |
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8 Mondays |
Jan 28, Feb 4, 11, 18, 25, Mar 4, 11, 25 (No Class Mar 18) |
7.30pm - 9.30pm |
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FEE €155 |
Print Open Learning Application Form 2012.13 or ring (01) 716 7123 for Laser/ credit card payment |
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Tutor Details:
Louise Walsh is a PhD student in the Clinton Institute of American Studies specialising in 20th Century American and Anglo-Irish Literature. Prior to this she completed an MA in American Literature and Film in UCC. She has tutored in the English Department in UCD since 2008. Louise is a committee member of the Irish Association of American Studies and Reviews Editor of the association’s journal IJASonline. She is an IRCHSS Postgraduate Scholar and an Ad Astra Scholar.
