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Literature and the Cinema
Course Description
The seminar seeks to investigate the complex relationships between literature and film/the cinema. Thus, intermediality, in a very basic and practical sense, is the theme of this seminar. 'Intermediality' denotes the crossing of genre borders, cross-fertilisation between the arts (originally between the sister arts of literature and painting).
After looking at some of the basic explorations of the interrelations between literature and film in classical film theory (e.g. S. Eisenstein, W. Benjamin, S. Kracauer,), we will move on to studying the cinema as a literary theme (e.g. in movie poems, film stories, cinema novels). Eventually, 'intermediality' will be considered in a stricter sense, i.e. as a cross-over-phenomenon, as the hybridisation of genres, esp. in the field of contemporary drama where the references to, and the inclusion of, films and video sequences within a play raise the problem of a new intermedial aesthetics.
Texts to be studied include: classics of film theory; movie poems, film stories; plays: Eugene O'Neill, The Movie Man (1914), Samuel Beckett, Film (1967), Marie Jones, Stones in His Pocket (1999).
As this course is planed as a Blockseminar, students should be prepared to attend a two-day conference on "Literature & the Media: Intermediality." This conference is currently being organised by the chairs of English Literature and American Studies and will take place on February 3-4, 2005.
Required reading:
Prerequisites:
Requirements for Credit:
- regular attendance,
- oral presentation,
- term paper.
Registration:
To register, please send an e-mail to Prof. Huber before 15 September, stating your name, semester standing, and subjects. To avoid disappointment, please register early, as there is a limit on attendance (25 participants).
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Literature and the Cinema