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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.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Assoc Prof B Creed & Dr J Hoorn

Prerequisites

Usually 12.5 points of First Year Cinema Studies, see Prerequisites.

Semester

1 (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 & m, tattooed, erotic, suffering, cyborg, abject and post-human body. Students should become familiar with the history and origins of the various body forms in Hollywood and a range of other cinematic traditions; be familiar with theories of the body in writing about cinema; and have an understanding of debates surrounding the body in film.

Assessment

A classpaper, an essay and a take-home examination totalling 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts

Films may include:

  • L Tamahori, Once Were Warriors.
  • P Greenaway, The Pillowbook.
  • D Cronenberg, The Fly.
  • D Cronenberg, Tetsuo.
  • S Elliot, Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
  • G Butler, Pumping Iron II.
  • M Scorsese, Cape Fear.
  • B Schroeder, Maitresse.
  • R Donner, Lethal Weapon.
  • 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.
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