Required reading: Shakespeare: Either or both Hamlet; Coriolanus André of and and in What is Cinema? Bazin, ‘In Defence Mixed Cinema’ ‘Theater Cinema’ Vol 1 (California 1968), pp 53-75 and 76-124. Stanley Cavell, medium and media of in (Harvard 1979) pp ‘The film’ The World Viewed 68-73 medium in 8.1. (2007) pp Journal of Art Jacques Rancière, ‘An interview…on specificity’ 99-101 Jacques Rancière, medium in 11 (2011) pp 25-43 Parrhesia ‘What can mean’ Jacques Rancière, Prologue Film Fables, P. Nicklas, and Storytelling and E. Voigts ‘Adaptation, Transmedia Participatory Culture,’ Adaptation 6:2 (2013) pp139–142. and Tense in Comparative Theories of Sarah Cardwell, ‘Present(ing) Tense: Temporality Literature-Film July 2000 at Scope Adaptation’ , http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/scope/documents/2000/july-2000/cardwell.pdf Live Cinema Relays of Susanne Greenhalgh, ed., ‘Special Performance Reviews Section: 32.2 (2014),Introduction. Shakespeare Bulletin Shakespearean Performance’, the RSC stage: the 2014 cinema Live from Stratford-upon-Avon John Wyver, ‘Screening (2015) broadcasts’, Shakespeare11.3 This seminar introduces the concept of medium specificity, and considers adaptation and transmediality as processes of textual transmission which confirm or test this idea. Our ‘case the most adapted and transmediated of all authors is Shakespeare, and we are study’ – – pleased to welcome Judith Buchanan to talk to us about Shakespeare silent and live broadcast theatre. Week 4: Dialogue - Talking and the McCluskey - ‘Talkie’ /Michael Screenings (dir. Frank Capra, USA, 1934) It Happened One Night (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, UK, 1938) The Lady Vanishes
Required reading: Either or both Shakespeare: Hamlet; Coriolanus André Bazin, ‘In Defence of Mixed Cinema’ and ‘Theater and Cinema’ in What is Cinema? Vol 1 (California 1968), pp 53-75 and 76-124. Stanley Cavell, ‘The medium and media of film’ in The World Viewed (Harvard 1979) pp 68-73 Jacques Rancière, ‘An interview…on medium specificity’ in Journal of Art 8.1. (2007) pp 99-101 Jacques Rancière, ‘What medium can mean’ in Parrhesia 11 (2011) pp 25-43 Jacques Rancière, Film Fables, Prologue P. Nicklas, and E. Voigts ‘Adaptation, Transmedia Storytelling and Participatory Culture,’ Adaptation 6:2 (2013) pp139–142. Sarah Cardwell, ‘Present(ing) Tense: Temporality and Tense in Comparative Theories of Literature-Film Adaptation’ , Scope July 2000 at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/scope/documents/2000/july-2000/cardwell.pdf Susanne Greenhalgh, ed., ‘Special Performance Reviews Section: Live Cinema Relays of Shakespearean Performance’, Shakespeare Bulletin 32.2 (2014),Introduction. John Wyver, ‘Screening the RSC stage: the 2014 Live from Stratford-upon-Avon cinema broadcasts’, Shakespeare11.3 (2015) This seminar introduces the concept of medium specificity, and considers adaptation and transmediality as processes of textual transmission which confirm or test this idea. Our ‘case study’ – the most adapted and transmediated of all authors – is Shakespeare, and we are pleased to welcome Judith Buchanan to talk to us about Shakespeare silent and live broadcast theatre. Week 4: Dialogue - Talking and the ‘Talkie’ /Michael McCluskey - Screenings It Happened One Night (dir. Frank Capra, USA, 1934) The Lady Vanishes (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, UK, 1938)