| Unit name | European Cinema: National and Transnational |
|---|---|
| Unit code | MODLM2071 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Professor. O'Rawe |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
none |
| School/department | School of Modern Languages |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
The unit aims to address issues in the "National" cinemas of Europe (including stars, gender, queer cinema and popular genres) and also the theoretical questions around the transnational circulation and transmission of these cinemas. In a theoretical context increasingly marked by a recognition of the difficulty of locating the national with regard to film cultures, how is it possible to speak of "French" or "Italian" national cinema?
Aims:
The unit will introduce students to key issues in various national cinemas of Europe, such as star studies, queer cinemas, and the relation of popular genres to auteur or arthouse cinema. It will also introduce recent debates on the transnational, and will evaluate the problematic position of the national, in a cultural context increasingly marked by globalisation and the transnational circulation of filmic texts and genres.
At the end of the unit students should be able to demonstrate a good understanding of the theoretical issues involved in the field of national and transnational cinemas.
They will be able to demonstrate the ability to read key selected topics in the light of these theories, and will show the capacity to analyse films and genres from an historical and theoretical perspective and in ways that take aesthetic, institutional and cultural factors and methodological issues into account. They will display a sophisticated understanding of a range of film-critical terminology, applying it to independently researched material as well as to material introduced by the unit tutor.
10 x 2-hour seminars per week
1 x 5000-word essay.
