This course explores the intersection of short fiction, intermedial adaptation, and narratology. Adapting a story from fiction to film offers filmmakers numerous opportunities to interpret, critique, politicize (or de-politicize), and generally reinvent the source text and, in doing so, to explore the possibilities and limitations of various genres and media. For literary and film critics, moreover, the process and results of adaptation serves as a laboratory in which to test, expand, or challenge how we read and analyze texts. What happens to our interpretive frameworks when a story crosses medial boundaries?