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 107-037 Film and the Body

Note

Formerly available as 111-251/351. Students who have completed 111-251/351 Theorising the Body in Australia are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Dr Jeanette Hoorn

Prerequisites

Usually 12.5 points of first year Cinema Studies see Prerequisites

Semester

Not Offered (view timetable)

Contact

A 1-hour lecture, a 1-hour tutorial, and a 2-hour screening per week

Subject Description

This course examines representations of the body in film and critical visual theory. It explores the relationship between desire, fantasy and the body as well as different forms of the body such as the macho, queer, s and m, tattooed, erotic, suffering, cyborg, abject and post-human body. There will be special emphasis on the history and origins of the various body forms in Hollywood and a range of other cinematic traditions. Theories about the body and especially theory which relates to idea of the body as an inscriptive site will be a focus of investigation for the course.

Assessment

An essay of 2000 words and a class paper of 2000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • M-L Frances & P Sharpe (eds), Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment, The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text. State University of New York Press 1992;.
  • Y Tasker, Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and Action Cinema. Routledge 1993.
  • Films may include: R Donner, Lethal Weapon.
  • L Tamahori, Once Were Warriors.
  • P Greenaway, The Pillowbook.
  • D Cronenberg, The Fly.
  • D Cronenber, Tetsuo.
  • S Elliot, Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
  • G Butler, Pumping Iron II.
  • M Scorcese, Cape Fear.
  • B Schroeder, Maitresse.
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