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ELT Journal 1991 45(2):147-155; doi:10.1093/elt/45.2.147
© 1991 by Oxford University Press
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Literature and film

Nigel J. Ross

received a BA in Humanities from Ealing College, London, before going to Italy to teach EFL. He has been teaching at the City of Milan School for Interpreters and Translators for the past nine years. He has also worked as a translator for a number of years. His main interest is in text analysis and its practical application.

This article looks at teaching modern literature with the use of film versions of the works studied. A special course that was organized around this concept is described. The course began by identifying and analysing aspects of the writer's art in general, with reference to a number of short stories. The next stage involved a brief survey of the film-maker's art. Finally, novels and film versions of the novels were studied and compared, both as complete works, and in great detail for selected sections. The results of the course are discussed, and suggestions are made for ways to use film versions of literary works in general literature courses and other contexts.


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