Your argument will demonstrate specific ways in which a film adaptation of a novel works well.  Or it could bring out how a novel works in ways a film does not or cannot.  You can review your novel choices on the Home Page.  Also, you could take the creative option and write the as yet unwritten screenplay treatment of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (along with a brief defense of your artistic choices).  Here are some popular matchups:

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the 1931 Boris Karloff Hollywood classic version or Mel Brooks Young Frankentstein or the Kenneth Brannaugh recent Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or Frankenstein Unbound produced and directed by Roger Corman.  Of course, the Corman vehicle also works with the Aldiss novel of the same name (Frankenstein Unbound).

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (this applies to on-campus sections, too) and Blade Runner

You will also use at least two secondary sources, a review from the time of the film's release and a recent journal article, popluar magazine commentary, or Internet posting to provide a topical jumping off point for your paper.

Now, here's the schedule:

Week nine:  Introduction with two secondary source citations and then the thesis sentence at the end.  Internet class will email this by that Friday.

Week ten:  First draft.

Week eleven:  Finished paper.

Creative option.  Read The Left Hand of Darkness, available at the Glades Road Booksmart, and write your film treatment.  First draft due date the same.  You will have an additional week to finish the screenplay treatment and one typed, double-spaced page defense of your artistic choices.  That means due in week twelve.  Deliver on time.  Too much overlap with Project #4 could present problems.

Audience (for regular and creative option):  movie savvy audience with broad artistic interests, including popular culture/film, and at least some literary tendencies (not necessarily of academic origin)

Tips:  This one is pretty creative.  Have fun and be concrete at the same time.  Document quotes from the novel MLA style and use detailed description of the novel for support.  Just be clear what scene you are referring to there.  The organization does not have to be balanced point by point or subject by subject.  Give this the emphasis you want, but be sure to include some close analysis of each as you demonstrate their artisitc relationship.

Email me with questions.  I expect to see a little more volume in that department with this one!