107-463 Dream Screen: Film and Psychoanalysis

Formerly available as 107-093. Students who have completed 107-093 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Admission to the postgraduate diploma or fourth year honours in cinema studies, or the Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours).

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 artworks; an understanding of the above in relation to the specific psychoanalytic theories of the cinema developed by Metz, Mulvey, Studlar and Eberwein.

• be skilled in research;

• possess advanced skills of critical thinking and analysis;

• possess an ability to communicate knowledge intelligibly, economically and effectively;

• have an understanding of social, ethical and cultural context.

A 5000 word research essay 100% (due in the examination period).

A subject reader will be available.