The student will be able to analyse the relationship between film and literature in film and literary works, drawing on useful notions of literary and film theory.
Analyse the relationship between cinema and literature: adaptations, references, styles, etc. Interrogate the notions of literary and cinematographic theories in the analysis of the crossing of the arts.
The course proposes to analyse the varied and complex relations between cinema and literature: influences, borrowings, quotations, adaptations, novelisations, diversions, appropriations etc.; from literature to cinema and from cinema to literature. It will also discuss the narrative processes that cinema borrows from literature and the stylistic processes that literature seems to borrow from cinema (cf. The notion of "cinematography of writing"). Beyond these intertextual, thematic and stylistic filiations, the course will also focus on the comparative study of the two arts, by means of certain notions developed in literary theory or film theory - sometimes common to both -, in order to understand what is at stake in the analysis of one or several works. In this way, the sometimes controversial notions of "fiction", "enunciation" and "point of view" will be put to the test in films and texts.
The assessment will consist of a public presentation of the comparative analysis of one or more chosen works, lasting 20 minutes, and the written work of this analysis (20,000 characters, including spaces) or in audiovisual form.