Literary and cinematic texts for close analytical discussion

Order Description Write an essay on one of the following questions. Your essay must focus on one of the following pairs of literary and cinematic texts for close analytical discussion: James Joyce: ‘The Dead’ and John Huston: The Dead Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire and Elia Kazan: A Streetcar Named Desire Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon and John Huston: The Maltese Falcon Alternatively you may base your essay on a critical discussion of Kaufman and Jonze’s Adaptation but you should also include discussion of ideas elaborated in Robert Stam’s ‘The Dialogics of Adaptation’.