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107-088 Love Stories: Film and Narrative Theory | |
Note | Formerly available as 111-361/461. Students who have completed 111-361/461 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Dr Mark Nicholls |
Prerequisites | Usually 12.5 points of first year cinema studies, see Prerequisites, or first year Women's studies, see Prerequisites. |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1-hour lecture, a 1-hour tutorial and a 2-hour screening each week |
Subject Description | This subject is a study of narrative forms in relation to the love story in its many manifestations. Prescribed films will explore areas such as romantic love, mad love (l'amour fou), forbidden love, perverse and melancholic love. Students should become familiar with topics such as: melodrama, film narrative and the structuralist controversy; the relationship between myth and narrative; classical and alternative narrative forms; narrative and audience; the feminist critique of the Hollywood classical narrative; postmodern narrative forms. There will be a special emphasis on issues of gender and the male melodrama. |
Assessment | A class paper, an essay and a take-home examination totalling 4000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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