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116-235/335 European Spectacle 1918-1968

Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years

Coordinator: Professor Colin Nettelbeck.

Prerequisite: 116-115 or 116-202 or equivalent

Contact: Lectures/seminars totalling not more than three hours per week.

Timetable: Second semester

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject should be able to:

• be familiar with major developments in dramatic and cinematic representation in France, Germany Italy from 1918 to 1968;
• understand the role of spectacle in effecting political and cultural change in modern Europe;
• relate the films and plays studied to their historical and social context;
• have a theoretical grasp of changes in the nature of public performance in the period studied.

Content:

Major trends in European cinema, drama and public performance during fifty years of intense political and social change.

Assessment:

Essay and class paper totalling not more than 5.000 words

Prescribed texts:

• Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape (Faber)
• Bertolt Brecht, Selected Plays (Heinemann)
• Jean Genet, The Blacks (Faber)
• Eugë ne Ionesco, The Bald Prima Donna (Faber)
• Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author (Penguin)
• Peter Weiss, The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton (Marion Boyars)

1. French, Faculty of Arts (v3, p81) : Next:116-242 | Prev:116-234

2. French, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p108) : Next:116-243 | Prev:116-234

116-235/335 European Spectacle 1918-1968

Credit points: 16.7

Coordinator: Professor Colin Nettelbeck.

Prerequisite: 116-115 or 116-202 or equivalent.

Contact: Lectures/seminars totalling not more than three hours each week.

Timetable: Second semester.

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject should be able to:

• be familiar with major developments in dramatic and cinematic representation in France, Germany Italy from 1918 to 1968
• understand the role of spectacle in effecting political and cultural change in modern Europe
• relate the films and plays studied to their historical and social context
• have a theoretical grasp of changes in the nature of public performance in the period studied

Content:

Major trends in European cinema, drama and public performance during fifty years of intense political and social change.

Assessment:

Essay and class paper totalling not more than 5,000 words

Prescribed texts:

• Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape (Faber)
• Bertolt Brecht, Selected Plays (Heinemann)
• Jean Genet, The Blacks (Faber)
• Eugë ne Ionesco, The Bald Prima Donna (Faber)
• Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author (Penguin)
• Peter Weiss, The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton (Marion Boyars)

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