Follow the links below for more information on the adaptation project assignment.

E-Submit Resources

• E-Submit Instructions
• Link to Course E-Submit Space

Project Handouts

• Adaptation Project Assignment
• Adaptation Project Proposal
• Creative Adaptation Project Grading Criteria
• Critical Adaptation Project Grading Criteria
• Creating Web Pages with Mozilla Composer [PDF Format]
• Integrating Tables, Targets and Clips into Web Pages [PDF Format]
• Revising Web Pages from Home [PDF Format]

Sample Creative Adaptations

From a senior seminar on film adaptations of British literature; note that the assignment has some components that overlap with our assignment, while other elements differ):

• Frankenstein: On the reality television show, Makeover Madness, plastic surgeon Frank resculpts middle-aged Lizzy. Behind the scenes, the pair fall in love. However, the surgical procedures produce unexpected results.
• Pride and Prejudice Translated: A modernization of the Austen novel in which New York- and L.A.-based families run businesses and their love lives.
• Prometheus: A Harvard graduate student "stumbles upon a genetic process that allows him to alter the immune system" and thus cure cancer, but the process has unintended side effects.

Student Projects, Spring 2006

Frankenstein Projects

• Frankenstein Goes Ghost World (Shaun McInnis): Alone after her friend, Enid, departs for college, Rebecca meets a bolt-necked Creature in the alley outside her favorite 1950s-style diner. As Rebecca befriends the Creature, the pair encounter Enid, who has returned home for break with a companion in tow, one who strangely resembles Rebecca's new-found friend. Includes original illustrations.
• A Journey of Remorse (Raef Harrison): In 1875, a London newspaper publishes heartbreaking letters recovered from a rugged Arctic campsite.
• Remade Man (Evan Woltz): In a Geneva hotel room, Victor Frankenstein awakes in a body elaborately stitched together after being torn apart. His blog records his descent into madness.
• The Second Phase (Sen Ando): Recruit Vince encounters old acquaintance Devin at boot camp. Devin cannot remember anything before the coma resulting from his attempt to hang himself at the age of thirteen, including his friendship with Vince. However, he begins having memories that suggest Vince played a crucial role in the event. He'll do anything to gain knowledge of his past . . . anything. Includes original computer-generated images.

Hamlet Projects

• Long Purples (Kristin Howell): Ophelia, balking at her community's constraints upon women, negotiates her relationship with Hamlet and her family.
• Welcome to the Hotel Elsinore (Charlie Stadtlander): On the eve of Gertrude and Claudius's wedding, the members of the Elsinore court ruminate in their rooms at a less-than-posh hotel.

Miscellaneous Projects

• Buffy: The Chosen Texts (Kimberly Kuntze): An analysis of how the film and television versions of Buffy the Vampire Slayer deconstruct the conventions of the horror genre and the TV drama/sitcom. Not only does adaptation theory provide limited models for how adaptations replicate their sources' relationship to genre, but it also fails to discuss adaptations that become the dominant version of the text.
• Can Any One Show Reign Supreme? (Christy Ordonez): A critical analysis of Family Guy and American Dad as adaptations of The Simpsons.
• Creating a Space of His Own: The Life of Pedro After the Election (Sara Kane): Pedro turns to the cool side in a children's tale that mimics Napoleon Dynamite's relationship to its cinematic source: Alex Cox's 1984 Repo Man. Repo Man's Otto cameos as Pedro's new best friend. Includes original illustrations.
• A Look at Adaptation Theory and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Amber McMullin): An examination of how a manga series and online cartoon site expand upon and humorously critique The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Through her analysis, the author expands adaptation theory into the realm of games and comic books.

Star Wars Projects

• If Leia Were a Jedi (Elysse Kimberlin): A New Hope reimagined with Leia in the hero's role. Includes original illustrations.
• Intertexuality in Shadows of the Empire (Dan Glenn): While the Shadows of the Empire novel, comic books, video game, and trading cards illustrate multiple modes of intertexuality, these texts reveal a theoretical lack of attention to non-cinematic adaptations and a failure to fully analyze how a body of adaptations can comprise a single "text."
• Star Wars: Alternate (Marella Petilo): A role-playing game that switches the genders of most major Star Wars characters. Viewers can use the character pages to run games exploring an alternate version of the Star Wars universe. The "Supplementary" page contains useful links on role-playing games.
• Star Wars in Less Than Twelve Parsecs (Stan Toleffsen): A "Fifteen-Minute Star Wars" that reflects fan perceptions of the film's essential elements.
• Star Wars: A Romantic Tale of Love (Masato Imai): A "Twenty-Five Minute Revenge of the Sith" that reflects the author's interpretation of Anakin as a tragic figure.
• the woman without an umbrella (Edward Basse): In a series of ruminations upon a relationship gone sour, an imperial functionary ponders the social, political, and cultural costs of empire and rebellion.

Technical Resources

• Mozilla Download
  Mozilla suite includes Mozilla Composer, the free graphical web-authoring program we're using in our lab classroom. The download page includes versions of Mozilla for Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX.
• Secure File Transfer Program Downloads
  • Fugu
    A free graphical file transfer application for Mac OSX. Please note that you must agree to software export regulation policies before you can download the program.
  • SSH Secure FTP
    The secure file transfer program we use in our lab. This free download for Windows users comes as part of the UW Internet Connectivity Kit starter set. Please note that you must agree to software export regulation policies before you can download the program.
• Web-Authoring and File Transfer Assistance
  • Creating Web Pages with Mozilla Composer
    From the CIC Student Guide, instructions on creating web pages with Mozilla's WYSIWYG editor. Page includes a Composer quick reference chart not reproduced in our course handouts.
  • File Transfer Program Instructions
    • Transferring Files with Fugu
      From the CIC Student Guide, brief instructions on using Fugu to upload files to your Dante account.
    • Transferring Files with SSH Secure FTP
      From the CIC Student Guide, detailed instructions and screen shots illustrating how to upload files to and download files from your Dante account.
  • Web-Authoring Resources
    Our course links page section listing everything from design guidelines to web-authoring tool downloads.

Last Update: 6/21/06