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 116-028 European Spectacle 1918-1968

Note

Formerly available as 116-235/335. Students who have completed 116-235/335 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Dr Gregory Sims

Prerequisites

This subject is taught in English and is open to all Second and Third Year Arts students.

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

A 2-hour seminar and a 1-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description

This subject deals with major trends in European cinema, drama and public performance during fifty years of intense political and social change. Students who complete this subject should be familiar with major developments in dramatic and cinematic representation in France, Germany Italy from 1918 to 1968; have an understanding of the role of spectacle in affecting political and cultural change in modern Europe; be able to relate the films and plays studied to their historical and social context; have a theoretical grasp of changes in the nature of public performance in the period studied.

Assessment

An essay and a classpaper totalling 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • S Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape. Faber.
  • B Brecht, Selected Plays. Heinemann.
  • J Genet, The Blacks. Faber.
  • E Ionesco, The Bald Prima Donna. Faber.
  • L Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author. Penguin.
  • P Weiss, The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton. Marion Boyars.
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