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Unit 3: Adaptations and transformations

5 dot points across 5 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How do the conventions of a particular form and medium produce meaning, and what is lost or gained when a text crosses into another?

the features and conventions of the form and medium of a text, and how they shape an audience response
How to read the conventions of a specific form and medium as meaning-making tools, so your adaptation analysis engages craft rather than plot.
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How does moving a story into a new form or medium change the meaning a reader or viewer makes of it?

the ways form, structure and medium shape meaning when a text is adapted or transformed
How to analyse the gap between a source text and its adaptation, and turn the transformation of form and medium into argument.
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How do the views and values of a source and its adaptation differ, and what does the change in cultural moment do to them?

the comparison of the views and values conveyed by a source text and by its adaptation or transformation
How to compare the views and values a source endorses with those of its adaptation, reading the shift against the different cultural moments that produced each.
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How does an adaptation draw on, echo and answer the text that came before it, and how do you read those intertextual relationships?

the intertextual relationships between an original text and its adaptation, including allusion, echo, omission and inversion
How to read the intertextual relationship between a source and its adaptation through allusion, echo, omission and inversion, and turn those links into argument.
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How does an adaptation function as a deliberate interpretation of its source, and how do you analyse the reading it advances?

the ways an adaptation or transformation constitutes an interpretation of the original text rather than a neutral reproduction of it
How to treat an adaptation as a reading of its source, identifying the interpretation it advances through emphasis, omission and reframing rather than judging fidelity.
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