RUSS 446 - Senior Seminar: In Print and On Screen:Russian Cinematic Adaptations

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3 HU, CD

From tsarist times to the present, filmmakers in Russia have drawn inspiration from the country’s rich literary tradition. We will study cinematic adaptations of Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, to name but a few, to explore the role that literary adaptations have played in the development of Russian cinema. Through a comparison of the original texts with their filmic transformations, we will examine how directors from different eras approached the problem of bringing another’s words to the big screen. Seminar format.
Instructor: A. Forman
Prerequisites & Notes

Prerequisite: RUSS 311 or consent of the instructor.
Note: May be repeated for credit.

Cross Reference/Cross Listing Information
This course is cross-referenced with Cinema Studies, and also counts towards that major as an advanced Cinema Studies course, but not as a Cinema Studies senior seminar.