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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Cinema Studies

111-361 The Love Story: Film and Narrative Theory

Credit Points:

16.7 3rd year

Coordinator:

Dr Barbara Creed

Prerequisite/s:

33 points in second/third year Cinema Studies subjects.

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

Three hours of lectures, and seminars each week and separate film screenings

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 examinations totalling about 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

  • Bordwell David, Narration in the Fiction Film, University of Manchester Press 1986.
  • Cook Pam (ed), The Cinema Book: A Complete Guide to Understanding the Movies, Pantheon Books New York 1985.
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