University of Bordeaux

This course, divided into two parts, studies a British novel and an American novel and their cinematic adaptations. It provides a close reading of FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN by Cormac McCarthy, and then introduces the basics of film theory to understand each movie. The main objective of this to familiarize students with the joint study of a literary work and one or more film adaptations by relying on several case studies.

This course provides an opportunity to respond to topics or prompts by exploring several mediums. It includes experimentation in situations that generate a dynamic of creation and explores how the intention, plastic production, and analysis of what happens during the experimentation are part of the same continuous process. Students build coherent hanging devices and increasingly consider the development of the note of intent or the oral argument, analytical forms that accompany, complete, and back up the production.

This course explores the difference between the language of literature and the language of general communication. The course examines these topics by conducting close textual analyses from 17th to 20th century literary samples of poetry, novels, and theater.