Adaptation: Literature, Film and Society

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 18.03.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Content Objectives
  3. Teaching Strategies
  4. Classroom Activities
  5. Resources
  6. Appendix
  7. Notes

Fahrenheit 451 in 2018: Can film bring Ray Bradbury’s classic into the modern age?

Jennifer L. Mazzocco

Published September 2018

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Notes

  1. Neil Gaiman, “Introduction,” in Fahrenheit 451, xi.
  2. James Blasingame and Frank Serafini, “The Changing Face of the Novel,” in The Reading Teacher, 148.
  3. Chris Berg, “’Goddamn you all to hell!’: The Revealing Politics of Dystopian Movies,” in IPA Review, 39.
  4. Berg, 42.
  5. Jack Zipes, “Mass Degradation of Humanity and Massive Contradictions in Bradbury’s Vision of America in Fahrenheit 451,” in No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction, 183.
  6. Phil Nichols, “Classics Cut to Fit? Fahrenheit 451 and Its Appeal in Other Media,” in Critical Insights: Fahrenheit 451, 95.
  7. Linda Costanzo Cahir, in Literature into Film: Theory and Practical Approaches, 14.
  8. Cahir, 16-17.
  9. Cahir, 19.
  10. Ramin Bahrani, “Why ‘Fahrenheit 451’ is the Book for Our Social Media Age,” in The New York Times, online.
  11. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 56.
  12. Bradbury, 55.
  13. Bradbury, 19.
  14. Bradbury, 79.
  15. Bradbury, 27.
  16. Bradbury, 60.
  17. Bradbury, 35.
  18. Zipes, 194.
  19. Bradbury, 26.
  20. Bahrani, Fahrenheit 451.

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