FSEM1010-24.FSEM: ILA/ISA: Flipping Pages.F15.Hueller,Patrick

Patrick Hueller

Document Type

Syllabi

School

CLA

Department

Other

Course Subject

FSEM

Course Number

1010

Course Section

24

Course Title

FSEM: ILA/ISA: Flipping Pages

Academic Term and Year

Fall 2015

Credits

4.00

Area of Study

FSEM

Course Description

Maybe you're in line at a movie theater. Maybe you're searching Netflix. Maybe you finally find a movie, THE movie, you want to watch. That's when someone—a friend? a bystander? the ticket booth worker?—says, ”The book is way better than the movie.” Is he or she just being snooty? Or is he/she right? Is the movie always worse than the book it's based on? (If so, why make the movie in the first place?) Do movies have storytelling limitations? Do books have storytelling limitations? Do some kinds of books make better movies? Do movies have an obligation to be loyal to the books they're based on? These are the sort of questions we'll be asking in this course. By the end of the semester, we will have read several books, watched several movies, and (hopefully) come up with loads of interesting thoughts about both. This FYSem is reserved for students who are members of the Institute for Academic Success program.

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