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Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Dr. Barbara Creed.
Prerequisite: 111-105 & 111-108
Contact: No more than four hours of lectures, tutorials and film screenings a week.
Objectives:
Students completing this subject should:
- demonstrate an understanding of the historical and stylistic development of the film noir body of texts from the silent period to the present;
- appreciate the symbolic relevance of the changing image of the femme fatale in the film noir;
- demonstrate an understanding of postmodern cinematic practice in relation to contemporary film noir.
Content:
A close study of film noir texts from Pandora's Box to The Last Seduction with emphasis on an evolving noir style. Topics studied will include: Silent period; noir and German expressionism; noir horror; classic Hollywood noir of the 40s; postmodern noir and the evolving image of the femme fatale.
Assessment:
Written work which may comprise class papers, essays or take-home examination totalling 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 31)
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