111-461 The Love Story: Film and Narrative Theory

Note

Available at 3rd-year level as 111-361.

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Prerequisites

At least three cinema studies subjects at second or third-year level.

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Subject Description

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 visual tests totalling about 6000 words.

Prescribed Texts

• (ed), Narration in the Fiction Film. University of Manchester Press, 1986.
• Cook, Pam (ed), The Cinema Book: A Complete Guide to Understanding the Movies Ch 4 'History of Narrative Codes, (pp 208-222) & Ch 5, 'Film Narrative and the Structuralist Controversy' pp 222-252. Pantheon Books, New York, 1985. Pantheon Books, New York, 1985, (Chapters 4 and 5).