Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design
To pics in Film Studies While films have been produced for over one hundred years now, critical film studies has only been a recognized as a major area of study for roughly half of this history. In order to inform my mentor’s research in this academic discipline, as well as bridge my interests in both film and literature, I have investigated journals, textbooks and other published works of critical scholarship by utilizing the library’s abundant resources. I have devoted the majority of my research to the fields of adaptation studies and film historicism in particular, both of which have helped solidify the status of film as a major art form and have promoted a greater understanding of the cinema as an institution. In the process, we have discussed the interrelation between these fields, specifically, how film adaptations of literature have been limited by the historical circumstances surrounding their production in relation to the artistic vision of the filmmaker, thus liberating the film as an autonomous object of critical study. The differences between a film adaptation and its literary source can be more revealing about the art of film and its historical context than what can be derived from a more traditional, formalist inquiry into their similarities. 13
K arr as Lam bert AWCOMAD Screenwriting & Playwriting
Mr. G regory W olma rt Faculty Mentor Cinema & Television
Poster Session B