An adaptation is a composition rewritten into a new form. For example, Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining, while it can stand alone as an important creative work, is also a retelling, a refashioning, of Stephen King’s novel The Shining. Stanley Kubrick’s film, in reworking something familiar, accomplishes something new. Students in the Monsters & Misfits course worked this semester to create an adaptation of a novel, film or television series that addresses at least one of the course questions:
What is a monster and/or misfit and why do we create them in literature and film? What issues do they address that we face in our culture and society and why do they create horror in humanity? How does the uncanny come into play when examining society’s fears? What influences from mythology, folklore and classical horror texts are still in our society with our own versions of monsters and misfits? What differences are there in our interpretations of monsters and misfits and what do those changes signify?
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