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 111-111 Introduction to Cinema B - Film Theory

Credit Points

12.5 1st year

Coordinator

Assoc. Professor B. Creed & Dr J. Hoorn

Prerequisites

111-105

Semester

2

Contact

One 1-hour lecture, one 1-hour tutorial and a two hour film screening

Subject Description

This course explores key developments in film theory from the modern to postmodern period. Using authorship as a framework, it will explore the following topics: the avant-garde, psychoanalysis, feminism, postmodernism, queer and postcolonial theory. Emphasis will be on the way in which film theory developed during from the seventies to the present - the similarities between theories as well as their differences. Emphasis will be on the way theories themselves develop in response to social and cultural change and, as such, are ideological. Films will be analysed from the viewpoint of different theoretical positions to demonstrate the relative nature of criticism. Selected films by the following directors will be studied: Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Jane Campion, Neil Jordan and Peter Greenaway.

Assessment

Written work totalling not more than 4000 words

Prescribed Texts

Subject Reader will be available

  • Films: David Lynch, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet.
  • Martin Scorsese, The King of Comedy, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence.
  • Jane Campion, Sweetie, The Piano, The Portrait of a Lady.
  • Neil Jordan, Mona Lisa, The Crying Game.
  • Peter Greenaway, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Pillow Book.
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