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Film Adaptations: The Business of Reinterpreting Shakespeare
Film Adaptations: The Business of Reinterpreting Shakespeare
Training Provider: Singapore University of Social Sciences
Course Reference: TGS-2024047264
S$1,461
About This Course
Demonstrate engagement with the key debate in adaptation: authenticity versus originality.
Show understanding of the language, themes, and socio-historical context of Shakespeare’s works and how they are appropriated and made relevant in film adaptations.
Examine the various approaches and challenges in adapting, directing, and performing Shakespeare on film.
Analyse the ideological underpinnings in adaptation, the role of genre, and the ways in which filmic techniques are used to reinterpret Shakespeare for the screen.
Appraise the ways in which filmmakers adapt and reframe Shakespeare in various languages and for different audiences.
Formulate assessments of production factors and business decisions in making, marketing, and distributing film adaptations.
What You'll Learn
FLM363 Film Adaptations: The Business of Reinterpreting Shakespeare asks students to consider why and how 400-year-old Shakespearean text has been adapted into film and continues to appeal to modern audiences. The course starts with a brief look at William Shakespeare’s historical and political context, and then moves into the ways in which Shakespeare was adapted from the page to the stage to film, developing various film conventions along the way. The course will survey adaptations of Shakespeare in various languages and styles, with attention to filmic aspects such as mise-en-scene and acting. It will also look into factors such as genre, ideology, the social and cultural context, the role of the celebrity, marketing, authenticity, and appropriation by various cultures.