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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. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | To be advised |
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 per week |
Subject Description | This subject will examine the development of contemporary film theory post-1968. 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; queer and postcolonial theory. Students will attend seminars that 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 and relate their findings as to the place of this text within the history of film theory. |
Assessment | A classpaper and an essay totalling 5000 words. |
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