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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Cinema Studies
111-421 Contemporary Film Theory |
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Credit Points: | 16.7 4th year | |
Coordinator: | Angela Ndalianis | |
Prerequisite/s: | To have satisfied the entry requirements for honours in Cinema Studies. | |
Timetable: | Semester 1 | |
Contact: | A 2-hour seminar and a two hour screening per week | |
Subject Description: | This subject will examine the development of contemporary film theory post-1968. Critical issues will be explored regarding the applicability of various theoretical approaches. Students will be expected to critically evaluate the significance and applicability of some of the following theoretical approaches which have dominated in the 1970s, 80s and 90s: the structuralist analysis of narrative patterns and the function of myth; early semiotics and the correlation between cinema and language; the cinematic apparatus and its effects of the spectator; questions of gender and the cinema; the impact of Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis; Althusser and ideological interpretations; feminist film theory; postmodernism; phenomenology; historical poetics; and active spectatorship. | |
Assessment: | Written work will comprise one class paper and one essay totalling about 6000 words. | |
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