Fiction and Film comparison

• Topics: choose one or two topics from the following; concerning any fiction or film we have covered in class.

1. Character analysis/comparison
2. Fiction and Film comparison : giving some general examples and some detailed analysis of your interpretation over the adaptation process. Thinking about why the author and the director want to tell the story like that? Considering the background history.

3. Narration-Narrator
4. Symbol
5. Movie appreciation

• Fictions that covered in class:

1. Lu Xun’s The New Year’s Sacrifice (1924)
2. Mao Dun’s The Shop of Lin Family (1932)
3. Shen Congwen’s Border Town (1934)
4. Chang Eileen’s Lust, Caution (1978)
5. Lee Lilian’s Farewell My Concubine (1985)
6. Mo Yan’s Red Sorghum (1986)
7. Su Tong’s Raise the Red Lantern (1990)
8. Yu Hua’s To Live (1993)
9. Yan Geling’s The Flowers of War (2007)

【 I recommend these three fictions and the corresponding films if you choose the topic “Fiction and Film comparison”】

• Films that covered in class: (all films are follow the fictions’ sessions)

1. New Year Sacrifice (1956)，directed by Sanghu
2. The Shop of Lin Family（1959），directed by Shuihua
3. Border Town（1984），directed by Ling Zifeng
4. Lust, Caution（2017），directed by Li An
5. Farewell My Concubine（1993），directed by Cheng Kaige
6. Red Sorghum（1987），directed by Zhang Yimo
7. Raise the Red Lantern(1991), directed by Zhang Yimo
8. To Live (1994)，directed by Zhang Yimo
9. The Flowers of War （2011）, directed by Zhang Yimo