Ovid’s Metamorphose: Hero’s Journey • The Virgin’s Promise Adaptation, Appropriation and Foregrounding

Reading: 1) Textbook: Chapter 3 – Film Adaptation
2) “The Hero’s Journey Outline” by Christopher Vogler (Moodle)
3) The Virgin’s Promise (excerpt) (Moodle)
4) “Book X” of Ovid’s Metamorphoses: verses 1-85 (Moodle);

Summarize the key points in Chapter 3, including terminology.
Screening: Clips from Cocteau’s Orphée. Black Orpheus, Vertigo, Moulin Rouge. Write a 250-word summary explaining the key
concepts in each of the assigned article or chapter, in your own words.
Summaries must be double-spaced, using 12-pitch Times New Roman
font. If more than one article or chapter is assigned, put all summaries
into one MS-Word file.

TEXTBOOKS
Adaptation: Studying Film & Literature – Matador Bookstore
by John Desmond & Peter Hawkes