SHAKESPEARE AND THE MOVING IMAGE
CRA2SMI
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
In this subject, students will be introduced to five Shakespeare plays and a number of screen versions of them. The plays will be set in the context of their textual production and the theatre of Shakespeare's time, but they will be analysed through their realisation in a series of film and television productions. The subject is taught in conjunction with The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, which will screen the films and provide a number of the lectures. Plays and screen versions covered will be: Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, and King Lear.
School: School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: Mike Nolan
Available to Study Abroad Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 2 - UG
Exchange Students: Yes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites: 15 credit points of 1st year English or 15 credit points of 1st year Drama or 15 credit points of 1st year Media or with coordinator's approval
Co-requisites: N/A
Incompatible subjects: CRA3SMI
Equivalent subjects: N/A
Special conditions: N/A
Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes
01. An introduction to Shakspeare's plays in relation to their treatment in film/TV
- Activities:
- Lectures, tutorials, workshops.
02. Introductory knowledge about adaptation especially in relation to plays and screen.
- Activities:
- class presentations, lectures, seminars
03. Learn how to write about thematic, conceptual, and structural aspects of eary modern drama and its modern manifestations.
- Activities:
- Lectures, tutorials, seminars, essay writing.
04. Understand some useful critical aproaches to the plays and their adaptations,
- Activities:
- Lectures, seminars, tutorils, analysis of secondary reading.