OVERVIEW

The challenges of adaptation: novel and comic cinema.

Since its birth the cinema has continued to draw his subjects to the novel. Then another phenomenon grows, the cinema comic album adaptation.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES (FURTHER INFO)

Provide knowledge in the relationship between different forms of artistic creation in the French context. Providing in-depth knowledge and expertise in textual analysis with special reference to adaptation forms from one medium to another: novel, comic, cinema.

TEACHING METHODS

 Lectures with the support of aulaweb

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The challenges of adaptation: novel and comic cinema 
Since its birth the cinema has continued to draw his subjects to the novel. Then another phenomenon grows, the cinema comic album adaptation. The course is designed to read the transformations engendered by the transition from one medium to another. To do this we focus attention on the intrinsic narrative techniques the three mediums considered: the literary narration, bédéique and film. The works that will be analyzed are: the novel La Princesse de Clèves by Madame de Lafayette (1678) and its cinematographic transposition La belle personne by Christophe Honoré (2008); the graphic novel Lulu femme nue by Etienne Davodeau (2 volumes, 2008-2010) and the cinematographic transposition of Solveig Anspach (Lulu femme nue, 2014); the novel Zazie dans le Métro (1959) by Raymond Queneau, cinematographic transposition of Louis Malle (1960) and the graphic novel by Clément Oubrerie (2008).

TEXTS: all texts in programs (two novels, three albums, three movies) and all critical materials published in aulaweb.
The final list of critical readings will pubbliée on aulaweb at the end of the course.

WORK GROUP. A deepening course on reading will be offered to students attending courses assiduously. This depth study will take place during the course. The modalities of participation will be illustrated at the beginning of the course and will be distinguished on aulaweb.

INDIVIDUAL WORK. Each student will prepare an analysis of a work of his choice in order to identify the characteristics of adaptation. read grids and analysis will be published on aulaweb. Students should send their work on aulaweb at least two weeks before the exam date. This individual work will be discussed during the examination.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

TEXTES ETUDIES
Etienne Davodeau, Lulu femme nue (2 tomes 2008-2010)
Solveig Anspach, Lulu femme nue (2014)

Madame de Lafayette, La princesse de Clèves (1678)
Christophe Honoré, La belle personne (2008)

Raymond Queneau, Zazie dans le métro (1959) - Gallimard
Louis Malle, Zazie dans le métro (1960)
Clément Oubrerie, Zazie dans le métro (2008) - Gallimard Fétiche

CRITIQUE
Clerc, J.-M., Carcaud-Macaire M., L’adaptation cinématographique et littéraire, Klincksieck, 2004
Dürrenmatt, J.,  Bande dessinée et littérature, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2013.

Gaudreault A., Groensteen T., La Transécriture. Pour une théorie de l'adaptation. Littérature, cinéma, bande dessinée, théâtre, clip, Éditions Nota Bene, 1998.
Genette, G., Figures III, Paris, Seuil, 1972.
Genette, G., Nouveau discours du récit, Paris, Seuil, 1983.
Groensteen T., Système de la bande dessinée, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, coll. « Formes sémiotiques », 1999.
Jost F., L'Œil-caméra - Entre film et roman, Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1989.
Reuter, Y., L’analyse du récit, Paris, Dunod, 1997.
Vouilloux B., "Lire, voir. La coimplication du verbal et du visuel", Textimage, 3, 2013, p.1-15, http://www.revue-textimage.com/07_varia_3/vouilloux1.html. 

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ELISA BRICCO (President)

IDA MERELLO (President)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

October the 10th, see schedule.

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral exam

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The exam consists of an oral test in French on the course contents, through the questions raised by the Commission and the presentation of a case study (Travail individuel analysis) that the candidate will have previously agreed with the professor. In examination assessment will be taken into account, as well as knowledge of the program to be performed (topics covered in class, reading and analysis of texts proposed during the lessons, the materials made available on aulaweb platform, the unabridged readings and of the case study proposed as candidate), also the exhibition and accuracy skills in the use of the specific discipline language.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Registration required on aulaweb