This course focuses on film adaptations of literary fiction. We will analyze the differences between literary and cinematic works that tell the same story in order to better understand the artistic techniques of the two mediums; the possibilities, challenges, and limitations of adaptation from one medium to the other; and the use of one medium to reveal something we might not see about the other on its own. This course will give you an introduction to literary and film studies and help you build your capacities to read, view, interpret, discuss, and write about literature, film, and their overlaps and differences. Works may include a selection of the texts and film adaptations of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Jane Austen’s Emma, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Edgar Allan Poe’s Fall of the House of Usher, Pierre Boileau’s Vertigo, James Cain’s Double Indemnity, Margery Sharp’s Cluny Brown, Nella Larsen’s Passing, Alex Haley’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Antonio di Benedetto’s Zama, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, Percival Everett’s Erasure, and Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown. The course will also provide students with opportunities to make their own short film adaptations of literary texts, or alternatively, to write short literary adaptations of films.