This assignment asks you to compare the film His Girl Friday to its source, the Hecht-MacArthur play The Front Page. Construct an argument about the film adaptation and its relation to the play. You can consider questions like: Is the film as effective, more effective, or less effective than the play? Why? What works? What doesn’t? How is film used to tell this story? (I have attached the articles to this order) Consider Kauffmann’s categories, Attention, Time, Framing, Opening Up, Words, Audience, Actor and Role, Glamor, Death, and Criticism; and Sontag’s observations about film versus theatre. Are there changes made to the source material specifically to accommodate the fact that it has been adapted to film? Your thesis should be personal, and grow naturally out of your reading of the play and watching of the film

This assignment asks you to compare the film His Girl Friday to its source, the Hecht-MacArthur play The Front Page. Construct an argument about the film adaptation and its relation to the play. You can consider questions like: Is the film as effective, more effective, or less effective than the play? Why? What works? What doesn’t? How is film used to tell this story? (I have attached the articles to this order) Consider Kauffmann’s categories, Attention, Time, Framing, Opening Up, Words, Audience, Actor and Role, Glamor, Death, and Criticism; and Sontag’s observations about film versus theatre. Are there changes made to the source material specifically to accommodate the fact that it has been adapted to film? Your thesis should be personal, and grow naturally out of your reading of the play and watching of the film