Undergraduate Course: Writers and the Cinema (ENLI10277)

Course Outline
School	School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	In this course we will explore the responses of writers (from the close of the nineteenth century to the present) to the coming of film, and assess the impact of the new medium on literary texts. The primary focus will be on the cinematic dimensions of modern literature, but we will also look at a number of influential films and writings on film, and address the mutual interactions between film and literature. We will explore the impact of the early silent cinema on its first viewers; literay and cinematic 'montage' in modernist fiction and poetry; Charlie Chaplin and the avant-garde; the effects on writers of the transition to sound film in the late 1920s; the relationships between documentary film and fiction in the 1930s, and, through study of Graham Greene's work, between the film critic and scenarist and the novelist; the question of literary adaptation; the role played by cinema and the cinematic in recent and contemporary writing.
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Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 2
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 176 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 75 %, Coursework 25 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	1 course essay of 2,500 words (25%) 1 take home examination essay of 3,000 words (75%)
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Learning Outcomes
Students completing this course will have gained: An understanding of the impact of cinema on twentieth-century literature, including an awareness of the ways in which writers incorporated the new forms of vision and motion into their work. Knoweldge of the ways in which cinema was itself influenced by literature and literary narration. *Knoweldge of som eof the central aspects of modern literature and culture, including literary and cinematic modernism and documentary culture.