16.7 3rd year Dr Barbara Creed. This subject is open to all third year students and is a prerequisite for entry into Fourth Year Honours. Second semester No more than four hours of lectures, tutorials, and screenings per week Students who complete this subject should:

• understand the major developments in film theory;
• appreciate the different theoretical positions and schools of thinking which have influenced the history of film theory;
• be able to select an area of film study suitable for a research project and prepare a relevant filmography and bibliography.

A study of the major theoretical developments in film including the following: expressionism, realism, formalism, auteur criticism, genre theory, semiotics, post-structuralism and feminist theory. Theorists studied will include: Arnheim, Kracauer, Pudovkin, Eisenstein, Bazin, Godard, Barthes, Metz, Mulvey. A study of areas suitable for a film research project will include: avant-garde filmmaking, auteurism, genre, film history, film and postmodernism, spectatorship, the body, film and myth, feminist film theory, queer theory. An essay on film theory of 2,000 words (40%), a rersearch essay with annotated filmography and bibliography of 3,000 words (50%) and seminar presentation (10%). Andrew Dudley The Major Film Theories: An Introduction New York: Oxford University Press 1976 Andrew Dudley Concepts in Film Theory New York Oxford University Press 1980 Collins J, Radner H and Collins A. B Film Theory Goes to the Movies New York Routledge,1993 16.7 Dr Barbara Creed. This subject is open to all third year students and is a prerequisite for entry into Fourth Year Honours Second semester. No more than four hours of lectures, tutorials, and screenings each week Students who complete this subject should:

• understand the major developments in film theory;
• appreciate the different theoretical positions and schools of thinking which have influenced the history of film theory; and
• be able to select an area of film study suitable for a research project and prepare a relevant filmography and bibliography.

A study of the major theoretical developments in film including the following: expressionism, realism, formalism, auteur criticism, genre theory, semiotics, post-structuralism and feminist theory. Theorists studied will include: Arnheim, Kracauer, Pudovkin, Eisenstein, Bazin, Godard, Barthes, Metz, Mulvey. A study of areas suitable for a film research project will include: avant-garde filmmaking, auteurism, genre, film history, film and postmodernism, spectatorship, the body, film and myth, feminist film theory, queer theory. An essay on film theory of 2,000 words (40 per cent); a research essay with annotated filmography and bibliography of 3,000 words (50 per cent); a seminar presentation (10 per cent). Andrew D The Major Film Theories: An Introduction New York: Oxford University Press 1976 Andrew D Concepts in Film Theory New York Oxford University Press 1980 Collins J Radner H and Collins AB Film Theory Goes to the Movies New York Routledge 1993