- Cours (CM) 15h
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Langue de l'enseignement : Anglais
Niveau de l'enseignement : C1-Autonome - Utilisateur expérimenté
Description du contenu de l'enseignement
Contenu pour l'année 2023-24:
Haunted-House Fiction
‘All houses are haunted—by memories, by the history of their sites, by their owners’ fantasies and projections or by the significance they acquire for agents or strangers.’ (B. Curtis, Dark Places : the Haunted House in Film).
In this seminar, we will discuss the use of the haunted-house trope in two novellas and their film adaptations:
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, 1898 (Penguin Classics).
Haunted-House Fiction
‘All houses are haunted—by memories, by the history of their sites, by their owners’ fantasies and projections or by the significance they acquire for agents or strangers.’ (B. Curtis, Dark Places : the Haunted House in Film).
In this seminar, we will discuss the use of the haunted-house trope in two novellas and their film adaptations:
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, 1898 (Penguin Classics).
- Jack Clayton, The Innocents, 1961.
- James Watkins, The Woman in Black, 2012.
Compétences à acquérir
Familiarity with critical discourses on one or several key texts.
Contact
Responsable
Sophie Mantrant