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111-463 "Dream Screen: Film and Psychoanalysis" appears differently in several places - choose the one you want:
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Year 4 Fine Arts.
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 4th 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.
Objectives:
Students completing this subject should:
- demonstrate an understanding of aspects of various psychoanalytic theories: Lacanian, Freudian, Jungian;
- demonstrate an ability to draw on psychoanalytic theories to interpret film texts and art works;
- demonstrate an ability to carry out close textual readings of film texts.
Content:
A close study of film texts in relation to key psychoanalytic concepts with emphasis on Jungian archetypal theory; the Lacanian concept of the mirror phase; and Freudian theories of the dream work, sexual difference, primal scenes, and the uncanny
Assessment:
Written work which may comprise class papers, essays, visual tests or take-home examinations totalling about 6,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. Fine Arts, Faculty of Arts (v3, p77) : Next:111-464 | Prev:111-462
2. Cinema Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p33) : Next:111-464 | Prev:111-462
Year 4 Cinema Studies.
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 4th 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.
Objectives:
Students completing this subject should:
- demonstrate an understanding of aspects of various psychoanalytic theories: Lacanian, Freudian, Jungian;
- demonstrate an ability to draw on psychoanalytic theories to interpret film texts and art works;
- demonstrate an ability to carry out close textual readings of film texts.
Content:
A close study of film texts in relation to key psychoanalytic concepts with emphasis on Jungian archetypal theory; the Lacanian concept of the mirror phase; and Freudian theories of the dream work, sexual difference, primal scenes, and the uncanny.
Assessment:
Written work which may comprise class papers, essays, visual tests or take-home examinations totalling about 6,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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2. Cinema Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p33) : Next:111-464 | Prev:111-462
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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