Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Arts and Humanities

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• Unit Title

  From Fiction to Film

• Unit Code

  ENG3140

• Year

  2017

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  1

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  

• Unit Coordinator

  A/Prof Debra Lynn DUDEK

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Description

The unit explores the development of the novel and its translation into film. It further develops research critical skills learned in one of the foundation units, while concentrating particularly on a close study of selected authors, whose novels have inspired film makers and actors to transcribe events and characters from the page to the screen. Students also learn about the historical, social and cross-cultural and international backgrounds of the authors and their fictional worlds as well as the cultural emphases of filmic versions.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Analyse and synthesise the relationship between specific fiction and film texts and their historical, social, and cultural contexts.
2. Assess the principal components of the novel as a literary genre that make it translatable into film.
3. Compare a selective range of critical approaches and ideas.
4. Evaluate appropriate research, critical, analytical, and interpretative skills in the study of fiction and its translation into film.
5. Explain the principal types of novel in terms of their forms, themes, and other characteristics and relate these to the factors determining their development and transcription into film.
6. Read and analyse novels with enhanced critical understanding and assess their transposability into film.
7. Synthesise and evaluate different critical approaches to the novel and its translation to the screen.

Unit Content

1. A range of critical approaches.
2. Critical use of secondary sources as a research tool.
3. The development of the novel and its transcription into film.
4. The form of the novel and its translatability into film.
5. The historical, cross-cultural and international social contexts of the novel, the author and the film maker.
6. The novel and film as social comment, including social sustainability and ideas.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and tutorials.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

• McEwan, I. (2014). Atonement. London: Vintage.
• Dickens, C. (2003). Bleak House. Houndmills: Macmillan.
• Elliot, G. (1967). Daniel Deronda. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin.
• Trollope, A. (2008). He knew he was right. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Flaubert, G. (2009). Madame Bovary. Camberwell, Vic: Penguin.
• Woolf, V. (1992). Orlando : a biography. London: Oxford Paperbacks.
• Ondaatje, M. (2004). The English patient. London: Bloomsbury.
• Gaskell, E. (1966). Wives and daughters. London: Dent.

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