ADAPTATION

RTS603

Course Code: RTS603
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 15

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Doctorate Of Science

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Professor Şebnem Pala Güzel

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

develop deep understanding of key concepts and debates about adaptation within the interface of art, media and economy politics.
have a comprehensive knowledge on different epistemological and methodological positions towards adaptation
) have an enhance ability to construct a solid grounding of conceptual and theoretical language within various contexts of adaptation and to evaluate them on a case-by-case basis.
to analyze and synthesize the interplay of different of adaptation contexts and genres in relation to both reproduction and reception of adaptation.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Course Description

At the end of this course, the students develop a profound understanding about the basic concepts and discussions regarding adaptation and the artistic, media and political economic interface of adaptation. They have the opportunity to gain a comprehensive knowledge about the ontological, epistemological and methodological approaches of adaptation. They gain the skill to evaluate the conceptual and theoretical production of language in different adaptation texts.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Definition of adaptation in various disciplines
2^nd Week	Adaptation: context and convention
3^rd Week	Why Adaptation?
4^th Week	Adaptation: Theory and Practice
5^th Week	Adaptation and semiotics: form of content, form of expression, substance of content, and substance of expression
6^th Week	Adaptation and reception
7^th Week	Adaptation:Economy and Politics
8^th Week	Adaptation from Literature and History
9^th Week	Photographic adaptations ; cinematographic adaptations
10^th Week	Adaptation from theatre to cinema and TV and vice versa
11^th Week	Adaptation and music Adaptation from plastic arts vice versa
12^th Week	Adaptation and video games and comic and animation
13^th Week	Transcultural Adaptation, adaptation as cultural production
14^th Week	Alternative adaptation strategies and categories and genres

Recommended or Required Reading

BAKHTIN, Mikhail. 1984. Rabelais and His World (Çev. Helene Iswolsky). USA: Indiana University Press.
BAKHTIN M. M. 1981. The Dialogic Imagination, Four Essays (Edited by Michael Holquist, Trans. By Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist) Austin: University of Texas Press.
CONNOR, J. 2007. ?The Persistence of Fidelity: Adaptation Theory Today?, M/C Journal, May 10(2). Retrieved 11 November 2016 from .
HUTCHEON, Linda. 2006. A Theory of Adaptation. New York: Routledge.
HUTCHEON, L. 2007. ?In Defence of Literary Adaptation as Cultural Production?, M/C Journal, May 10(2). Retrieved 11 November 2016 from .
LEITCH, Thomas. 2007. Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
LEITCH, Thomas. 2008. ?Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads,.?, Adaptation 1(1): 63-77.
MURRAY, Simone. 2012. The Adaptation Industry: The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation. New York: Routledge.
SANDERS, Julie. 2006. Adaptation and Appropriation. London: Routledge
STAM Robert and Alessandra RAENGO. 2008. Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation USA: Blackwell Publishing

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Questions/Answers

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	20
Assignment	1	40
Total(%)		60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		40
Total(%)		100

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1	LO2	LO3	LO4
K1	X	X	X
K2			X	X
K3		X