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106-246/346 Popular Fiction

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Ken Gelder

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description:

This subject takes popular fiction as a specific field of cultural production. Students will analyse various definitive features of that field: popular fiction's relations to 'literature', genre and identity, gender and sexuality, the role of the author profile, cinematic and TV adaptations, readerships and fan interests, and processing venues. The subject is built around a number of genres: crime fiction, science fiction, the romance, the 'sex and shopping' novel, the thriller and the blockbuster.

Assessment:

Written work of up to 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

  • M Crichton, Jurassic Park
  • A Christie, Murder on the Orient Express, Fontana.
  • C Cookson, The Dwelling Place
  • A C Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Penguin.
  • I Fleming, Dr No
  • T Harris, The Silence of the Lambs, Mandarin.
  • C McCullough, The Thorn Birds
  • D Simmons, Hyperion
  • J Collins, The Stud
  • H G Wells, The War of the Worlds, Penguin.
  • A Rice, The Mummy
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