Adaptation in Media

Adaptation in Media treats the movement of stories across forms, novel to film, comic to series, game to franchise, as its own object of study, asking what changes when a text crosses mediums and cultures rather than whether the new version is "faithful" to the old. Most of the semester is spent close-reading case studies (Watchmen across its 1987, 2009, and 2019 incarnations is the anchor) and building toward a term project, with grades resting on that project, an oral presentation, and consistent participation. It sits on the theory-and-criticism side of COMD rather than production, and the analytical vocabulary you pick up here, medium specificity, appropriation, transmedia logic, is what makes later franchise, fandom, and media-industry courses legible.