Examines reboots, remakes, and retellings across film, TV, literature, games, and digital media to analyze narrative persistence, cultural significance, and artistic style.
Critically assess rhetoric about adaptations' originality and increasing prevalence.
Analyze adaptations and compare across multiple media, considering mechanics, successes, failures, and cultural work.
Connect discussion of adaptations and continuations to a broader understanding of how popular narratives, myths, heroes, and villains work.
Compare the cultural and aesthetic roles and uses of reboots, remakes, and retellings.
Describe artistic style across media, and of concepts central to the appreciation and study of literature and media, including originality, authorship, value, and the text.
Apply methods for analysis of literary and cultural texts to interrogate the many cultural and aesthetic roles and uses of reboots, remakes, and retellings.
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Why do certain stories and characters persist and reappear through adaptation, reboots and retellings? What are the challenges and possibilities of adaptation, what do they tell us about media, literature, meaning, narrative, and creativity, and what is their cultural significance? Learn to critically examine adaptations across multiple media, including film, television, literature, games, comics, apps, and online media. Gain a broader understanding of how popular narratives, myths, heroes, and villains work and a deeper awareness of artistic style.
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Reboots, Remakes, & Retellings
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