Macbeth (1971)
Literature and Film: the East European Way
Please note: C LIT 357 A is the same as GLITS 314 A and Slavic 223 A
If one section is full please enroll in another.
Professor Gordana Crnković
TA: Svetlana Ostroverkhova
This course looks at how films by East European directors employed literary works of different genres to create some of the best and most internationally recognized films of these directors’ careers, as well as make literature itself more popular and widely read. Among other examples, we will look at how these films adapted short stories by one of the most important Czech authors, Bohumil Hrabal, the novel The Door by Hungarian writer Magda Szabó, the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, and the memoir The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman. Films for the class will be available on Canvas and the required books in UW Bookstore. We will watch a number of films as well as read literary works that served as their blueprint—a few short stories, one play, one novel, and excerpts from the memoir. No prerequisites.