Thème n°32: Anglais
Anne-Catherine Jaboyedoff
A Novel, a Film: Dystopian Fiction
A Literary and Cinematographic Research
Literary texts adapted for the cinema :
- How do we transpose a work of literature onto the big screen?
- What difficulties and what choices does this transposition infer ?
- What is gained or lost in the process?
- How do we judge the success or failure of the experiment ?
This topic will be treated based on analyses of both the literary text focusing on a dystopian novel and its adaptation on screen. For obvious reasons, only films adapted from English-written literary works will be considered valid.
Suggestions: Nineteen Eighty-Four, Minority Report, I Am a Legend, Blade Runner
Students can propose any topic within the limits of this project, the more original, the better but subject to the TM mentor's approval.
The subject requires good mastery of both written and spoken English as the final document of about 20 pages will be presented in English.
«DYSTOPIA (from Greek, dys topos, "bad place"): The opposite of a utopia, a dystopia is an imaginary society in fictional writing that represents "a very unpleasant imaginary world in which ominous tendencies of our present social, political, and technological order are projected in some disastrous future culmination" (Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 6th edition. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Pub., 1993.)