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 107-096 Contemporary Film Theory

Note

Formerly available as 111-421. Students who have completed 111-421 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

4th year

Credit Points

25

Coordinator

Ms Angela Ndalianis

Prerequisites

Admission to fourth year Honours in Cinema Studies see Honours Entry

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

A 2-hour seminar, and a 2-hour screening, and a 2-hour workshop per week

Subject Description

This subject will examine the development of contemporary film theory post-1968. Critical issues will be explored regarding the applicability of various theoretical approaches. Students will be expected to critically evaluate the significance and applicability of some of the following theoretical approaches: formalism and structuralism; apparatus theory; feminist film theory and spectatorship; Lacanian psychoanalytic theory; postmodernism; and historical poetics. Students will also be required to attend a workshop that will involve a variety of topics: close analysis, close readings, research, thesis writing, paper presentation. Finally students will be required to present a paper based on a close reading of a specific film text with reference to its use of film language. Students will also conduct research into this film in relation to its production history, distribution and reception. Students will then relate their findings to the place of this text within the history of film theory.

Assessment

A classpaper and an essay totalling 10,000 words.

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