Never Let Me Go Featurette

Take a look at this video, in which the cast and director of the film adaptation of Never Let Me Go, along with Ishiguro himself, discuss the process of adapting the novel.

introduction

What’s so intriguing about vampires?
What’s so threatening about monsters?
What’s so human about us?

In this course, we will explore a nineteenth-century fascination that is still alive on our screens today: the vampiric, monstrous “other” that is not one of us.  It will allow us to ask big questions — what makes us individuals, what makes us different from animals, how we conceive of identity and difference, and how we sympathize with others (whether human or not) – through an exploration of the not-so-human as imagined in fiction and film.

This class blog will provide a forum for us to discuss the texts we read and watch throughout the semester.