POSTCOLONIAL CINEMA

Docenti

Corsi di laurea e percorsi

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Programma

Obiettivi Formativi

Title: "FROM NOVEL TO FILM. INNER LIVES: TALES OF LOVE AND DISENCHANTMENT"

This module analyses some of the most successful film adaptations from postcolonial novels and novellas.

Prerequisiti

Buona conoscenza dell'inglese

Contenuti

After an introductory unit focusing on the theories and methods of literary adaptations on film, the module will provide a critical analysis and assessment of a number of acknowledged masterpieces of postcolonial literature and their transposition on the screen. Particular attention will be given to crucial themes, such as the perception of "home" (The English Patient), issues of race, sexuality and power (Disgrace), loss, memory and healing (Felicia’s Journey), diaspora and the relationship between identity and modernity (Intimacy) and finally white supremacy, patriarchal restrictions and silence in Campion’s haunting film.

Testi di riferimento

Primary Sources: novels

M. Ondaatje, THE ENGLISH PATIENT, 1992
J. M: Coetzee, DISGRACE, 1999
W. Trevor, FELICIA’S JOURNEY, 1994
H. Kureishi, INTIMACY, 1999

Films
Anthony Minghella, THE ENGLISH PATIENT, 1996.
Steven Jacobs, DISGRACE, 2008.
Atom Egoyan, FELICIA’ S JOURNEY, 1999.
Patrice Chereau, INTIMACY, 2001.
Jane Campion, THE PIANO, 1993.

Secondary Sources
Tim Woods, “POSTCOLONIAL FICTIONS”, in Cambridge History of the Twentieth-Century English Literature, ed. By L. Marcus, P. Nichols, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 736-750.

ADAPTATIONS: FROM TEXT TO SCREEN, SCREEN TO TEXT, ed. by D. Cartmell and I. Whelehan, London, New York: Routledge, 1999, pp. 3-28.

Thomas Bronswen, ‘PIECING TOGETHER A MIRAGE: ADAPTING THE ENGLISH PATIENT FOR THE SCREEN, in The Classic Novel. From Page To Screen, ed. By R. Gidding and E. Sheen Manchester, New York: Manchester University Press, 2000, pp. 197-232.

S. Watson, “COLONIALISM AND THE NOVELS OF J. M. COETZEE”, in Critical Perspective on Coetzee, ed. by Graham Huggan and Stephen Watson; preface by Nadine Gordimer, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996, pp. 13-36.

D. Attridge, J. M. COETZEE & THE ETHICS OF READING, Chicago London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004, pp.162-191.

K. C. Kaleta, HANIF KUREISHI: POSTCOLONIAL STORYTELLER, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998, pp. 1-17.

E. Adami, RUSHDIE, KUREISHI, SYAL: ESSAYS IN DIASPORA, New Dehli: Prestige Books, 2006, pp. 11-22; pp.89-103.

M. Vanon Alliata, "THE KILLER, THE LAMB AND THE OTHERS. W. TREVOR'S FELICIA’S JOURNEY. BILDUNGSROMAN AS THRILLER", in Roots and Beginnings. Proceedings of the Second AISLI Conference, Venezia, Ca Foscarina 2003, pp. 239-250.

Ken Gelder, “JANE CAMPION AND THE LIMITS OF LITERARY CINEMA, in Adaptations: From Text to Screen, Screen to Text, ed. by D. Cartmell and I. Whelehan, London, New York: Routledge, 1999, pp.157-172.

Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento

scritto

Metodi didattici

Front lectures; film screenings and seminars

Lingua di insegnamento

English

Altre informazioni

Reading lists for non attending students and other information will be given during the course