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107-051 Melodrama, Class and the Cinema | |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Dr Mark Nicholls |
Prerequisites | Admission to the Postgraduate Diploma or 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 involves a study of the role the melodrama has played in the representation of class and ideological conflict in the cinema. Students are asked to examine melodramas from various periods such as the silent period, the 1930s, the 1950s and contemporary cinema, from both mainstream narrative and art cinema traditions. They will encounter theoretical writings on class and ideology in the subject's interrogation of the melodrama's tendency to expose ideological contradictions at a domestic and political level. This subject enables students to understand issues of film form, gender, sexuality and psychoanalysis in relation to the melodrama's complex representation of class in the cinema. |
Assessment | Written work totalling 5000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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