Adaptation and 3-D

Kenneth Nolley <[email protected]>
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From: Michael Lawrence <[email protected]>

I just finished teaching a course on adaptation ...

Jindabyne, an Australian film based on the Raymond Carver short story 'So
Much Water So Close To Home' worked particularly well as a 'transcultural'
adaptation

We had a great deal of fun with Roger Corman's The Fall of the House of
Usher, based on the Poe short story

Students also really enjoyed Where The Wild Things Are, as a picture book
to feature film adaptation

The classic novel we read was Wuthering Heights - comparing Wyler's film
from 1939 with Andrea Arnold's from last year (we also looked at the Bunuel
version) - students wrote very well on the differences between these two
films (and the novel)

For 'free adaptation' we did Claire Denis's Beau Travail / Melville's Billy
Budd - Catherine Grant has a brilliant essay on 'free auteurist adaptation'
in the journal Screen focusing on Denis's film

best,
Michael Lawrence
University of Sussex
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