Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 78)
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111-465 "Comedy, Cult and the Carnivalesque" appears differently in several places - choose the one you want:
1. Fine Arts, Faculty of Arts (v3, p78) : Prev:111-464
Year 4 Fine Arts.
Credit points: 16.7 4th Year
Coordinator: Angela Ndalianis.
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.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students completing this subject should:
- account for comedy and cult forms' capacity to extend across a variety of genres
- outline some of the defining characteristics of different kinds of cult and comedy forms
- account for the cult film/audience relationship and the pleasures provided by both comedy and cult
- explore the reasoning behind comedy and cult's resistance to theorisation
Content:
This subject will focus on approaches to and definitions of the comedic and cult in film and television. Some attention will be paid to the historical development of comedy and cult but particular focus will be given to some of the following areas: the ability of comedy and cult to violate generic boundaries and rupture classical narrative form; pleasures of comedy and cult; the carnivalesque and liminality; the resistance to theorisation; comedy and the grotesque; bad taste films; and cult, ritual and the spectator.
Assessment:
Written work which may comprise research paper and essay totalling no more than 6,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. Fine Arts, Faculty of Arts (v3, p78) : Prev:111-464
2. Cinema Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p33) : Prev:111-464
Year 4 Cinema Studies.
Credit points: 16.7 4th Year
Coordinator: Angela Ndalianis.
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.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students completing this subject should:
- account for comedy and cult forms' capacity to extend across a variety of genres
- outline some of the defining characteristics of different kinds of cult and comedy forms
- account for the cult film/audience relationship and the pleasures provided by both comedy and cult
- explore the reasoning behind comedy and cult's resistance to theorisation
Content:
This subject will focus on approaches to and definitions of the comedic and cult in film and television. Some attention will be paid to the historical development of comedy and cult but particular focus will be given to some of the following areas: the ability of comedy and cult to violate generic boundaries and rupture classical narrative form; pleasures of comedy and cult; the carnivalesque and liminality; the resistance to theorisation; comedy and the grotesque; bad taste films; and cult, ritual and the spectator.
Assessment:
Written work which may comprise research paper and essay totalling no more than 6,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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2. Cinema Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p33) : Prev:111-464
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