[Students] Planning on seeing Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey this December?

Kim Jefferies Kim.Jefferies at tamuc.edu
Tue Oct 30 15:01:34 CDT 2012


Why not take a winter mini-meseter course where you will be studying the
film with a group of like-minded students?

The first class (probably anywhere) taught on Jackson's first Hobbit
film:

ENG 497.01W:  The First Hobbit Film
Winter 2013 Mini-Mester

English 497 is the course designation for Literature and Languages
undergraduate special topics courses. The number exists to provide
faculty and students the chance to explore special topics not part of
the regular curriculum. English 497 may be taken more than once for
credit, as long as the topic changes. 

The topic for this winter mini-mester class is The Hobbit:  An
Unexpected Journey (2012). The class will focus on the film as the
primary text (previous knowledge of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel is not
required!), with reading and writing assignments designed to teach
students how to understand and apply four critical paradigms of film
adaptation. 

Prerequisites: Eng 1302 and sophomore standing. 

Required Texts

 Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film
Trilogy. Edited by Janice M. Bogstad and Philip  E. Kaveny. Print ISBN:
978-0-7864-4636-0. McFarland.

NOTE: While an essay that I co-wrote with Dr. Judy Ann Ford, History, is
in this anthology, neither she nor I will receive any money from the
sales of this anthology. Royalties go to the two editors, not to the
eighteen contributors. 

"The Accidental Tourist On Page and on Screen; Interrogating Normative
Theories About Film Adaptation," Karen Kline. Literature Film Quarterly
24.1 (1996): 70-81.

NOTE: This academic article is available in our university's full-text
database; you will not be buying a copy. 
		
The assignments will consist of:

1. Viewing THE HOBBIT in the theatres at least three times between
December 13 and December 22. There will be online discussion (informal
writing assignments) associated with all three viewings; there will be
assigned film terminology and adaptation questions for two viewings.

2. Posting in the online discussions (which will be a major part of the
class grade because that's the way to get writing into a mini-mester);
and,

3. Writing a 2-page proposal for a ten-page film adaptation/analysis
paper. 

We will also do a group review/discussion of the film for posting in my
Tolkien Studies blog. 


Robin Anne Reid
Professor of Literature and Languages
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, TX 75429
903.886.5268
Fax: 903.886.5980


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