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本課程引領學生縱覽近代最受重視的一系列莎劇電影，配合電影評論暨相關學術論述，期待達到以下教學目標：（1）幫助學生快速達到對莎劇豐富面貌初步的整體認識；（2）引領學生接觸媒體研究/文化研究有關莎劇改編晚近特別關注的議題；（3）提高學生進一步探索莎士比亞研究的興趣。 莎劇電影改編可謂對莎劇文本特別鮮明而影響廣泛的一種評論詮釋。嘗試觀察劇本文本/電影文本/評論文本之間相互辯證的關係，應能有助鍛鍊學生對文學藝術作品整體的欣賞、理解乃至於批評的能力。
This course aims to initiate students into the wealth of Shakespeare’s Drama by studying some of the most highly regarded films based on his plays. Students will be exposed to filmic productions by such directors as Olivier, Welles, Zeffirelli, Polanski, Brook, Nunn, Branagh and Almereyev; they will also become acquainted with cinematic Shakespearean adaptations that involve bolder reworking and cultural transposition by directors such as Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Greenaway, Julie Taymor, Xiaogang Feng and Sherwood Hu. Aside from film viewing and discussions in class, students will also study selected monologues and scenes from the original Shakespearean texts. On the basis of “close reading” of both films and texts, supplemented by a good number of critical essays available in the course packet, students will be encouraged to explore key issues contemporary literary, media, and cultural studies are concerned with, e.g., questions about adaptation, authorship, the strengths and limitations of the stage/cinematic means for representing Shakespeare, and the problem of “authenticity” inherent in a cross-media, cross-cultural migration.