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106-246/346 Popular Fiction

Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator: Ken Gelder.

Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.

Timetable: First semester

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• be familiar with some important genres of popular fiction, and some representative examples of each genre;
• understand and apply theoretical concepts of form, ideology and readership to popular texts and fan communities.

Content:

This subject explores questions of form, ideology and the 'popular' itself in five genres: crime fiction, science fiction, the thriller, romance and the blockbuster.

Assessment:

Written work of up to 5,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Chricton M Jurassic Park. Christie A Murder on the Orient Express Fontana
• Cookson C The Dwelling Place. Doyle A C The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Penguin
• Fleming I The Spy Who Loved Me. Harris T The Silence of the Lambs Mandarin. McCullough C The Thorn Birds. Simmons D Hyperion
• Susan J Valley of the Dolls. Wells H G The War of the Worlds Penguin
• Rice A The Mummy.

1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p54) : Next:106-247 | Prev:106-241

2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p100) : Next:106-247 | Prev:106-241

106-246/346 Popular Fiction

Credit points: 16.7

Coordinator: Ken Gelder.

Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week

Timetable: First semester.

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• be familiar with some important genres of popular fiction, and some representative examples of each genre; and
• understand and apply theoretical concepts of form, ideology and readership to popular texts and fan communities.

Content:

This subject explores questions of form, ideology and the "popular" itself in five genres: crime fiction, science fiction, the thriller, romance and the blockbuster.

Assessment:

Written work of up to 5,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Chricton M Jurrasic Park. Christie A Murder on the Orient Express Fontana
• Cookson C The Dwelling Place. Doyle A C The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Penguin
• Fleming I The Spy Who Loved Me. Harris T The Silence of the Lambs Mandarin
• McCullough C The Thorn Birds. Simmons D Hyperion. Susan J Valley of the Dolls. Wells H G The War of the Worlds Penguin
• Rice A The Mummy.

* Note that CONTACT, CONTENT, OBJECTIVES, POINTS, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.

2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p100) : Next:106-247 | Prev:106-241

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