P405 Literature and Film in Portuguese  (3 credits)
NOTE: This is the correct title.
Instructor: DJ Sadlier (e-mail: sadlier)

Course Description:
	Throughout the twentieth century, Portugal's and especially
Brazil's intermittent success in the international film marketplace
has been achieved though its ability to fashion important pictures
out of the work of its most celebrated authors. In 1975, all five of
the screenplays nominated for the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de
Cinema's prestigious "Golden Owl" award were adaptations. Moreover,
during the heyday of the Brazilian "Cinema Novo"(1960's-1970's)
which is arguably the most significant era of production, radical
film makers repeatedly used literature as a way of covertly
criticizing the right-wing military regime. This was also true of
film makers in Lusophone Africa.  In recent years, many of the most
admired films in Portuguese have been adaptations.
	
	This course will provide an historical overview of this link
between film and literature. But it will concentrate mainly on films
from the latter half of the century that are easily accessible in
the United States. The films selected are highly diverse and reflect
a broad range of styles and approaches to movie-making during this
period. Although the course will examine the differences between
film and literature as media, its chief aim is to demonstrate what
might be called the politics of adaptation,–that is, the ways in
which a medium like motion pictures, which addresses large
audiences, can employ literature to acquire cultural capital, forge
national identity, and effect political action.

Grading Requirements:
	All students will write a midterm and final exam as well as
a research paper (undergraduates 6-8pp; graduates 10-12pp) on a
topic to be decided upon in consultation with the instructor. They
will also give an in-class presentation based on their final
research project.

P405    4365   2:30P-3:45P   MW   WY111   Professor D. Sadlier
6:30P-9:00P   M    BH235   (Film Showings)

NOTE:  P405 will meet jointly with HISP P505 and HISP P498.