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Film Studies
Title: 2005 Topics in Film Studies--Humanities (Adapting Shakespeare) (Online)
Campus: MU
Credit: 3 credit hours (no graduate credit)
Lessons: 7 lessons, 6 submitted
Exams: 2 exams
Grading: Faculty Evaluated
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course introduces students to the problems of adapting William Shakespeare's plays in contemporary film. Students will develop ideas about adaptation with reference to contemporary adaptation theory, which will liberate them from the notion of "faithfulness" to the texts so that modernized and contemporary stagings of the plays can be studied on their own terms. In this way, the course will help students relate to these classic texts on the grounds of their universal (and continuing) appeal. This course requires students to develop interpretations of both written text and recent adaptations of four major plays. Students will develop crucial interpretation skills, especially those relevant to film and literary study, and will also highlight themes in the texts that elucidate contemporary social ideals.
Special Instructions: Lesson 2 is the previewable lesson.

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Textbook Information
Item 1
Author: Braunmuller
 Title: Hamlet
 ISBN: 978-0-14-071454-8
 Edition: '01
 Publisher: Penguin
 New price: $4.15
Item 2
Author: Braunmuller
 Title: Merchant of Venice
 ISBN: 0-14-071462-6
 Edition: '00
 Publisher: Penguin
 New price: $4.15
Item 3
Author: Crewe
 Title: Twelfth Night
 ISBN: 978-0-14-071489-0
 Edition: '00
 Publisher: Penguin
 New price: $4.15
Item 4
Author: Holland
 Title: Romeo and Juliet
 ISBN: 0-14-071484-5
 Edition: '00
 Publisher: Penguin
 New price: $3.50
Item 5
Author: McDonald
 Title: Othello
 ISBN: 0-14-071463-4
 Edition: '01
 Publisher: Penguin
 New price: $3.50
Item 6
Author: Orgel
 Title: Macbeth
 ISBN: 0-14-071478-2
 Edition: '00
 Publisher: Penguin
 New price: $4.15
Text total: $23.60

Tuition:
Undergraduate tuition: $245.60/credit ($736.80)
Graduate tuition: $298.70/credit ($896.10)

Total Cost:
Undergraduate tuition: $736.80 (Graduate tuition: $896.10)
Information Technology fee: $36.60
Administrative fee: $25.00
Texts, etc.: $23.60

Total cost: $822.00 ($981.30 Graduate)
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