75349 - Literature and Visual Studies (LM)

Course contents

The sense of the past: Adaptation, heritage film, nostalgia

Readings/Bibliography

Literary texts

►Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.

►Edward Morgan Forster, Howard End

►Ian MacEwan, Atonement

Films

►Pride and Prejudice, 1940, dir. Robert Z. Leonard

►Pride and Prejudice, 2005, dir. Joe Wright

►Howards End, 1992, dir. James Ivory

►Atonement, 2007, dir. Joe Wright

(segmenti di altri film verranno presentati e commentati durante le lezioni)

Criticail texts

►F. Jameson, Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism (only the Introduction and the First Chapter)

L. Hutcheon, A Theory of Adaptation

B. Vidal, Heritage Film: Nation, Genre, and Representation, Columbia University Press (il libro, non presente nelle biblioteche di Bologna, verrà messo a disposizione degli studenti dalla prof. Meneghelli)

►L. Hutcheon, “Irony, Nostaglia, and the Postmodern” (https://www.uploady.com/#!/download/jxUUBvVgcii/mmrY8irON3GaRLkd )

► W. Benjamin, The Work of Art in the age of mechanical reproduction (solo i primi tre capitoli, “L’opera d’arte nell’epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica”, “Piccola storia della fotografia”, “Edward Fuchs, il collezionista e lo storico”, pp. 17-123)

 

Teaching methods

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Office hours

See the website of Donata Meneghelli