Presentation requires you to conduct close reading analysis of a selected passage and conduct film analysis of a selected scene. Textual/visual evidence must be connected with your argument and must support your interpretive reading.
Develop your own topic/problem as a direction for the comparative analysis. That direction must be based on secondary source or sources. These sources must be explicitly introduced and engaged in the paper.
Focus on “what’s different” in the narratives (i.e., what does the film have that the book does not, and vice versa?), but realize that this is only a discussion
starter—push students out of their comfort zones into more sophisticated conversations;
Identify and reflect upon the choices that the “adapter” made in order to create the film—were these choices financially driven by the film’s budget?
Were they driven by the length of the book, causing either radical omission if the book is long or creative addition if the book is short? Were they driven by national and world political climates? These are but a few choices to consider;and
Wrestle with key adaptation issues such as fidelity (i.e., the “faithfulness of the
adaption”) and the different degrees of translation, such as faithful vs. radical
(i.e., the adaptation bears very little resemblance to the original source material).
Please read through all content of the attached file and use what will be applicabcixle to my final presentation.
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