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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Cinema Studies

111-463 Dream Screen: Film and Psychoanalysis

Credit Points:

16.7 4th year

Coordinator:

Dr Barbara Creed

Prerequisite/s:

To have satisfied the entry requirements for Honours in Cinema Studies.

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

A 2-hour seminar and a 2-hour screening each week

Content:

A close study of film texts in relation to key psychoanalytic concepts with emphasis on Jungian archetypal theory; the Lacanian concept of the mirror phase; and Freudian theories of the dream work, sexual difference, primal scenes, and the uncanny.

Assessment:

Written work which may comprise class papers, essays, visual tests or take-home examinations totalling about 6000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

  • Kaplan, E Ann, Psychoanalysis and Cinema, Routledge New York 1990.
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