Bosnian Literary Adaptations on Stage and Screen

Sanja Garić-Komnenić holds a PhD in film and theater semiotics and teaches film and media, rhetoric, and academic writing at British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver, Canada. A summary of her PhD thesis, “A Comparative Analysis of the Functions of Film and Theatre Language Units,” was published in The American Journal of Semiotics (Ed. Richard L. Lanigan: 2001. Vol. 17, No.3.). Sanja has translated two books into English, Footprints: Poetry and Threads of Poetical Impression (2008) and the novel Chernovs’ Toil and Peace (2010). Sanja has contributed to The Pacific Rim Review of Books and is a member of the NECS –The European Network for Cinema and Media Studies.

• Introduction.- Part one.- Chapter 1- the basic concepts in semiotics.- Chapter 2- sign in film and theatre.- Chapter 3 - film and theatre language.- Conclusion.- Part two - the practicum.- Introduction.- Chapter 4 - the novel the fortress as the film discourse.- Chapter 5- the novel the island as the theatre discourse.- Conclusion.