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107-074 Introduction to Cinema B: Film Theory | |
Note | Formerly available as 111-111. Students who have completed 111-111 Introduction to Cinema B are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 1st year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Assoc Prof B. Creed & Dr J. Hoorn |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1-hour lecture, a 1-hour tutorial, and a 2-hour screening per week |
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, Neil Jordan, Peter Greenaway and David Cronenberg, Kathryn Bigelow. |
Assessment | Written work totalling 4000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. Film screenings are subject to availability.
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