Minor · 01/ENG/MNR/251T · 2026–27 intake

Cinematic Adaptations Of Literary Texts

Semester IV · 6 credits · 5 units

Examination scheme & source discrepancies

The source lists 3 hours, 120 end-semester marks and 30 sessional marks.

Some marking instructions are internally inconsistent. Confirm the current pattern with your department; the practice questions here do not claim to reproduce it.

Paper Setting &Marking Scheme: Time: 03 Hours MM= 120 Part- A (10x2=20 Marks) Ten short answer questions, two from each unit. Answer to each question shall be limited up to 50 words. Part- B: (5x20=100 Marks) The Candidates shall attempt one out of two questions from all the five units in not more than 500 words each.

The White Tiger is labelled play, with no author; do not silently convert this into a prescribed Aravind Adiga novel without department confirmation.

Not present in the owner-supplied 2026–27 PDF (jnvu_ba.pdf), which covers English Major papers only; this paper is retained from the G.D. Memorial College full syllabus copy.

Unit IThe Language of Film: Signs and Syntax (How to Read a Film, ch. 3, pp. 170–249) / Beyond Fidelity: The Dialogues of Adaptation (Film Adaptation, pp. 54–76)

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View prescribed wording & source

The Language of Cinema: James Monaco, ‘The Language of Film: Signs and Syntax’, in How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media & Multimedia (New York: OUP, 2009) Chap. 3, pp. 170– 249. Stam Robert, ‘Beyond Fidelity: The Dialogues of Adaptation’, in James Naremore, ed., Film Adaptation (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000) pp. 54-76.

Source syllabus · page 91