ADAPTATIONS

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"Adaptations" uses the concepts of adaptation and intertextuality as a way to think critically about texts and other forms of media. While part of the focus will focus on structures of genre, we will also discuss how changes represent the cultural values and standards of the era that produced them. Based on their theories from the 16th through the 21st centuries, the course examines a series of origin texts and their reiterations in subsequent adaptations in text, film, the performing arts, video games, graphic novels and anime.