We did something similar here, setting book and film as the
last session of Verbal and Visual Culture. Everyone loved
the film until they read the book and realised how much had
been left out, simplified, or otherwise made more palatable
- which led to them realising that the book does the
same...
Sarah Salih
On Fri, 19 May 2000 12:19:00 -0500 "N. M. Schulman"
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> >what do members think about the book/film The name of the rose ?
> >
>
> Personally, I enjoyed the film although (as is usually the case) it
> is far weaker than the book.
>
> I tried showing the film as an extra-credit assignment to my upper
> level medieval history class -- the assignment being to write 2-3
> pages assessing the historical accuracy of the film, on the basis of
> what we had learned about the Middle Ages in the course of the term.
> Although there are certainly a number of "inaccuracies" and flat out
> anachronisms (the apparently seventeenth century statue of the virgin
> in the church being the one that stuck in my craw), I like the way it
> manages to contrast the strong passions of the intellect and the
> gritty, drab reality of the monastery. My students, however, were
> unimpressed. I am always surprised how ready they are to reject
> movies as being "just Hollywood" and leave it at that.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nicole
>
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> Nicole Morgan Schulman
> Assistant Professor of History, Ohio Wesleyan University
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