Topic: TV drama adaptation
Brief description :
According to the specified essay topic below and identify an appropriate primary corpus, and critically analyse how your sample texts have changed when placed in dialogue with other cultures. You may wish to consider what is culturally specific about these texts, and what has local and global significance. Do NOT write about Japanese manga or anime, as these are comprehensively dealt with in other units.
Writing topic:
Cultural similarity and distance are favourably but differently perceived by audiences in East Asia in their consumption of media texts from neighbouring countries. A further step – particularly evident in TV Drama series – is to produce a local remake of such media texts. A remake can be a simple transposition from one setting to another, or it can become an original creative work. Explore the possibility for creative adaptation in selected scenes from a drama series that originated in one country and has been remade in another (or in some cases two or three others).(e.g. Japan to TaiWan etc.) [Please ensure that your chosen examples are available with English subtitles, and give full details of your sources.]
Your essay should:
• be 3000 words; be presented in 12-pt font, 1.5-spaced, 2cm margins;
• use an approved referencing style, e.g. MLA, Chicago, Harvard, APA;
• be fully referenced with at least five relevant academic references (books, book chapters or journal articles) (You can locate scholarly (peer-reviewed) articles by using the library databases such as Project Muse or Academic Advanced Premier. You can find these by using the Library’s Multi Search: >Databases>Project Muse, e.g. You can also put a key word into Multi Search under books and articles, but you need to be precise in your choice of term, or you’ll get hundreds of irrelevant references. You may include graphics and website materials, but they will not be counted as academic references);
List “Works Cited” at the end of your essay. This should not be a general bibliography or references, but contain all and only works cited within the essay;
Avoid the use of subheadings (a coherent argument should link components of a short essay such as this); and
Minimise description of content and story elements – analyse!