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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’.