Advancing Studies · Boston College
This course will focus on literary works that have been adapted to the screen, analyzine various approaches in style and technique. At times content and thematic focus remain similar, while for other adaptations, there can be significant changes from the written word to the cinematic image. Plays, short stories and novels for the course include, among others, The Conformist by Alberto Moravia, In the Bedroom by Andre Dubus, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.
