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1 Teaching with Film Michelle Onley Pirkle

2 Teaching with Film “Upgrade” literature or composition course Film Studies (History & Aesthetics course or Adaptation*)

3 Teaching with Film Positive Holds attention (entertaining) Different teaching tool Cultural Studies Images & audio to read Seen as reward

4 Teaching with Film Michelle Onley Pirkle

5 Teaching with Film Positive Holds attention (entertaining) Different teaching tool Cultural Studies Images & audio to read Seen as reward

6 Teaching with Film Negative Seen as reward

7 Teaching with Film Negative Seen as reward—tasty dessert

8 Teaching with Film Positive Tasty dessert  healthy sandwich 

9 Teaching with Film

10 Mise en Scène Film as Visual Storytelling

11 Mise en Scène Camera: angle, lens, filter, shot type Composition: design, organization Color: dominant, contrast, symbolism Actors: position, proximity, body, expression Setting: place, space, materials Lighting: brightness, contrast, Depth: planes, foreground background Framing: tight or loose Form: open or closed, balance

12 Mise en Scène

13 Super 8 Director: J. J. Abrams Producer: Stephen Spielberg

14 Mise en Scène Giannetti, Louis. Understanding Movies. 12th ed. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 2011. Print.

15 Find “Ways In” Duchovatip #2 Costumes, Screenwriting, Music History, Movie Posters, Actors Cinematography, Theme (ex.: War) Acting Style (ex.: Method Acting), Genre Titles, Choreography, Censorship Special Effects (Technology), Set Design Class/Gender/Sexuality Director (Auteur Theory)*, Adaptation*

16 Auteur Theory

17 Director as author or auteur of film (patterns of motifs & themes) France (1954)–François Truffaut, Cahiers du Cinéma (directors: Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks) U. S.—Andrew Sarris, The Village Voice Controversial (Pauline Kael— collaboration)

18 Adaptation Studies

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20 BOOK FILMFILM 

21 Levels of Adaptation Literal: word-for-word Faithful: captures spirit Loose: little resemblance

22 Adaptation Studies  Film Novel Short story Video Game Board Game Comic book Toy Historical Event Person Song Painting

23 “Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads” Thomas Leitch (2008)  Swamp of Fidelity Sea of Intertextuality

24 “Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads” Thomas Leitch (2008)  Swamp of Fidelity Sea of Intertextuality

25 “Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads” Thomas Leitch (2008)  Swamp of Fidelity Sea of Intertextuality

26 “Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads” Thomas Leitch (2008)  Swamp of Fidelity Sea of Intertextuality

27 “Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads” Thomas Leitch (2008)  Swamp of Fidelity Sea of Intertextuality

28 “Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads” Thomas Leitch (2008)  Swamp of Fidelity Adaptation 1.1 (2008): 63-77 Sea of Intertextuality (Bakhtin— “no single source”)

29 Approaches to Adaptation “The medium is the message.” Marshall McLuhan (1964)

30 Approaches to Adaptation “What Novels Can Do That Films Can't (And Vice Versa)” Seymour Chatman(1980)

31 Approaches to Adaptation “What Novels Can Do That Films Can't (And Vice Versa)” Seymour Chatman(1980) Affordances Novel Film Asserts Presents Describes Depicts Focus Overspecification

32 Approaches to Adaptation “What Novels Can Do That Films Can't (And Vice Versa)” Seymour Chatman(1980) Affordances Novel Film Name music Play music Reader controls time Director controls time

33 Teaching with Film

34 Positive Tasty dessert  healthy sandwich 

35 Teaching with Film Film Sandwich Introduction (director, cultural context, focus) Handout (info & questions over form & content) Film presentation (the chicken!) Written assignment Discussion (groups & full class)

36 Adaptation Studies BOOK FILMFILM 

37 Adaptation—Intro (1) 1963 20092009 

38 Adaptation—Intro (1) 1960 1981 1970

39 Maurice Sendak 1960 1981 1970

40 Spike Jonze 20031999 2002

41 Adaptation—Handout (2) Questions Information Images

42 Adaptation—Presentation (3) Opening Scenes 18 minutes

43 Adaptation—Writing (4) Class answers question(s) Each group answers question (s)

44 Adaptation—Discussion (5) Each group discusses question(s) Class discusses question(s)

45 Teaching with Film Michelle Onley Pirkle

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