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Appalling DVD product at Virgin Music Store, Union Square. The next time I teach literature, I will only assign books that haven't been made into movies. Oy.
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posted by Cowboy Dave Dickerson | 12:01 PM
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Actually, an English professor at Washington & Jefferson College conducted a bit of an experiment with her classes in that she had one group read Jane Austen's "Sense & Sensibility" then see the film and the other group saw the film first and then read the book. The result was that those who saw the film first and then read the book had a greater understanding and comprehension of the story that those who read the book first. It's documented in their quarterly publication "Topic" (issue #48); the article is "Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility as Gateway to Austen's Novel: A Pedagogical Experiment" by M. Casey Diana.
I expect it has a lot to do with most people being more visual learners over all (perhaps as a result of watching television?). Besides, one valuable topic of discussion is how the film and the book differed (because you can't put every minute aspect of a book into a film) and why.
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