Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 32)
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Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 3rd year
Coordinator: Dr Barbara Creed.
Prerequisite: At least three cinema studies subjects at second or third-year level
Contact: A 2-hour seminar and a 2-hour screening per week. As this is also offered at 4th year level, numbers permitting, students will be divided into separate third and fourth year seminars.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should:
- understand the various theories of narrativity including those of Bazin, Metz, Propp, Barthes, Mulvey and De Lauretis;
- understand the different but related approaches to narrative represented by semiotics, structuralism and feminist theory;
- appreciate the way different cinematic institutions (avant-garde, popular, political) draw on different narrative forms such as classical and alternative.
Content:
A study of narrative forms in relation to the love story in its many manifestations. Prescribed films will explore areas such as romantic love, mad love (l'amour fou), forbidden love, perverse love. Topics covered will include: film narrative and the structuralist controversy; the relationship between myth and narrative; classical and alternative narrative forms; narrative in art and multi-media; narrative and audience; the feminist critique of the Hollywood classical narrative.
Assessment:
Written work which may comprise class papers, essays or take-home examination totalling 5,000 words. at third year.
Prescribed texts:
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 32)
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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