Select one literary text (novel, short story or play) and its filmed adaptation used in class from week 2 to week 15 this semester. Write an analysis paper comparing the text “Do Androids Dream of electric sheep” and the film “Blade Runner”

Assignment Question

Write an analysis paper comparing the text “Do Androids Dream of electric sheep” and the film “Blade Runner”. Paper must be 5 pages long, NOT more: (4-page essay + 1-page bibliography); double spaced and type written.

ASSIGNMENT

The assignment is to write a macrocosmic adaptation analysis essay that compares a literary text and its filmed adaptation. The assignment is a research project that results in a critical and theoretical essay; hence, the essay must be scholarly in content and form, style and tone, written in the MLA (Modern Language Association) Style, and contain proper in-text citations of secondary sources.

To do the assignment, you must first carefully read again at least 1 or 2 of the following reading materials posted in Canvas: “Literary and Film Terms,” “Film Adaptation: The Case of Apples and Oranges,” and/or “A Method of Studying Film Adaptation.” You should also read 1 or 2 samples of ‘adaptation analysis articles’ in the folder “Samples- Adaptation Analysis Articles” in the “Files” tab in Canvas.

TOPIC

1) Select one literary text (novel, short story or play) and its filmed adaptation used in class from week 2 to week 15 this semester.

2) Find at least four (4) scholarly and professional secondary sources: two about your literary text, and two about the filmed adaptation of your literary text. The list of secondary sources could include a combination of the following types of sources: article from a scholarly or academic journal; popular review article from credible magazines, newspapers, or websites; and a book source.

3) Read again your selected literary text and carefully watch its filmed adaptation, at least twice, and take notes while watching the film the 2nd or even 3rd time.

4) And, with as complete a reference to your selected literary text, filmed adaptation, and scholarly secondary sources as possible, write a macrocosmic adaptation analysis that critically compares your literary text and its filmed adaptation. As a theoretical and critical paper, the adaptation analysis will combine the following two analytical approaches that determine how the two texts create meaning(s): a) a textual analysis that explores how the formal and stylistic systems work in relation to the overall structure and thematic concerns of the text: story, plot, characters, narrative structure, writing technique(s) for the literary text; and story, plot, characters, cinematography, sound, editing, and narrative structure for the filmed adaptation. b) a contextual analysis that looks at how the meaning in each text is affected by the context (historical, economic, cultural and institutional factors) in which the literary text was written and published, and the filmed adaptation produced and distributed.

NOTE ON SECONDARY SOURCES Secondary sources may include reading materials used for this class. Avoid using questionable sources taken from the internet. Properly acknowledge and cite your secondary sources in the MLA style of citation. Hence, Proper in-text citations of all sources listed as secondary sources or ‘works cited’ are required in the essay.