MFD10020 Adaptation, Transmediality & Intertextuality

Academic Year 2023/2024

In this module, students will be introduced to theories of adaptation, transmediality, and intertextuality, examining a wide variety of examples drawn from music, dance, theatre, cinema, and music video.
Some stories or texts seem to surface again and again, often crossing over or bleeding into multiple art forms. For example, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, itself an adaptation of the Pyramus and Thisbe myth, has inspired too many examples to count, from Berlioz’s symphonie dramatique to Prokofiev’s ballet, and from Bernstein’s West Side Story to Taylor Swift’s ‘Love Story.’ The transformations that occur when texts or themes modulate across media forms offer a rare opportunity to interrogate the features that both distinguish and unite the worlds of music, film and drama. This module requires engagement with all three of these academic disciplines and invites correlation of themes and ideas in writing about music, film and drama.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

- Discuss, interpret, and apply theories of adaptation, transmediality, and intertextuality in the creative arts.
- Examine a variety of examples of musical, filmic, and dramatic adaptation.
- Compare and contrast aspects of the various media through which adaptations modulate.
- Work co-operatively and independently to synthesise knowledge and critically reflect on module topics.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

22
Tutorial

22
Specified Learning Activities

28
Autonomous Student Learning

50
Total

122
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
- lectures
- reflective learning
- critical writing
- debates
- active-task-based learning 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Essay: Critical response Week 6 n/a Graded No

30
Journal: Learning Journal Throughout the Trimester n/a Graded No

20
Presentation: Presentation Week 12 n/a Graded No

50

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Summer No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Formative feedback will be given on draft texts while the final versions will receive feedback together with the grade.

Name Role
Tegan Sutherland Tutor
Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
 
Spring
      
Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Wed 09:00 - 10:50
Tutorial Offering 1 Week(s) - 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Wed 13:00 - 13:50
Tutorial Offering 2 Week(s) - 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 31, 32, 33 Thurs 12:00 - 12:50
Tutorial Offering 2 Week(s) - 30 Thurs 12:00 - 12:50
Spring