From Print to Pictures, the Art of Film Adaptation: Politics and Paranoia




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ClassGraphic Join us as we explore four movie thrillers (and the texts that inspired them), which navigate the murky world of political intrigue. Hitchcock's Notorious, based on a story by John Taintor Foote, involves a mix of espionage, Nazis, and the heated chemistry of Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway become entangled as they are hunted by a rogue faction of the CIA in Sydney Pollack's Three Days of the Condor (novel by James Grady). John Frankenheimer's masterly adaptation of Richard Condon's The Manchurian Candidate features Frank Sinatra as he tries to save Laurence Harvey from the dark forces that have brainwashed him. Director Franklin Shaffner brilliantly adapts Gore Vidal's satirical play, The Best Man, which features a riveting performance by Henry Fonda as one of several candidates seeking the US presidential nomination, at almost any cost. Our films showcase four of the most iconic male actors of the last century: Grant, Redford, Sinatra, and Fonda—each at the peak of their careers. This is a seven-week study group that meets three hours one week to discuss the text and watch the film, followed the next week with a two-hour discussion/evaluation of the film's adaptation.

Class Details

7 Session(s)
Weekly - Tue

Location
500 Davis Center

Instructor
Multiple

Tuition: 

$0.00

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Schedule Information

Date(s) Class Days Times Location Instructor(s)
3/3/2026 - 4/14/2026 Weekly - Tue 01:15 PM - 03:15 PM Evanston, 500 Davis Center  Map Art Bloom  ; Julie Gordon 

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