16.7 4th year Dr. Barbara Creed. At least three cinema studies subjects at second or third-year level. First semester A 2-hour seminar and a two hour screening per week. Students completing this subject should:

• account for the theoretical shift from a semiological framework to a politicised psychoanalytic approach with regard to the cinematic spectator and the film text;
• analyse the various theories which explain the nature of the cinematic apparatus and the pleasure principles behind narrative cinema;
• account for the theoretical critique of the cinema as an ideological apparatus in relation to the events of May '68;
• outline the impact of feminist film theory and queer theory on contemporary film theory.

This subject will examine the development of contemporary film theory. Critical issues will be explored regarding the validity and adequacy of various theoretical approaches. The main focus will centre around the impact of semiology, psychoanalysis and ideological analysis of film theory of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Areas to be explored will include: the structuralist analysis on narrative patterns and the function of myth; early semiotics and the correlation between cinema and language; the cinematic apparatus and its effects on the spectator; identification and spectatorship; the impact of Lacanian psychoanalysis; Althusser and ideological interpretations; feminist film theory and queer theory. Written work which may comprise class papers, essays, visual tests or take-home examinations totalling about 6,000 words. 16.7 4th year Dr. Barbara Creed. At least three cinema studies subjects at second or third-year level. First semester A 2-hour seminar and a two hour screening per week. Students completing this subject should:

• account for the theoretical shift from a semiological framework to a politicised psychoanalytic approach with regard to the cinematic spectator and the film text;
• analyse the various theories which explain the nature of the cinematic apparatus and the pleasure principles behind narrative cinema;
• account for the theoretical critique of the cinema as an ideological apparatus in relation to the events of May '68;
• outline the impact of feminist film theory and queer theory on contemporary film theory.

This subject will examine the development of contemporary film theory. Critical issues will be explored regarding the validity and adequacy of various theoretical approaches. The main focus will centre around the impact of semiology, psychoanalysis and ideological analysis of film theory of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Areas to be explored will include: the structuralist analysis on narrative patterns and the function of myth; early semiotics and the correlation between cinema and language; the cinematic apparatus and its effects on the spectator; identification and spectatorship; the impact of Lacanian psychoanalysis; Althusser and ideological interpretations; feminist film theory and queer theory. Written work which may comprise class papers, essays, visual tests or take-home examinations totalling about 6,000 words.