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107-093 Dream Screen: Film and Psychoanalysis | |
Note | Formerly available as 111-463. Students who have completed 111-463 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Assoc Prof Barbara Creed |
Prerequisites | Admission to Fourth Year Honours in Cinema Studies, see Honours Entry. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 2-hour seminar and a 2-hour screening per week |
Subject Description | This subject involves a close study of film texts in relation to key psychoanalytic concepts with emphasis on Jungian archetypal theory; the Lacanian concept of the mirror phase; and Freudian theories of the dream work, sexual difference, primal scenes, and the uncanny. Relevant theories of Melanie Klein, Julia Kristeva, Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari will also be considered. Students who complete this subject should demonstrate: an understanding of aspects of various psychoanalytic theories; an ability to draw on psychoanalytic theories to interpret film texts and art works; an understanding of the above in relation to the specific psychoanalytic theories of the cinema developed by Metz, Mulvey, Studlar and Eberwein. |
Assessment | Written work totalling 5000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available.
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