Module Identifier | EN33820 | ||
Module Title | READING FILM: BRITISH CINEMA AFTER 1940 | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr David E Shuttleton | ||
Semester | Semester 1 | ||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | 20 Hours Seminar. (10 x 2 hr seminar workshops) | |
Practical | 30 Hours (10 x 3 hr viewing sessions) | ||
Assessment | Semester Assessment | Continuous Assessment: 2 essays (2,500 words each) | 100% |
Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. |
Introductory Reading
You might consult Graeme Turner, Film as Social Practice (Manchester University Press); Timothy Corrigan, A Short Guide to Writing About Film (Harper Collins) or Mast, Cohen and Braudy (eds), Film Theory and Criticism (4th edition, OUP) Secondary reading lists on specific topics will be made available throughout the module.
1. Introduction
2. 'How We Fight': In Which We Serve (1942) (Noel Coward)
3. 'Why We Fight': either Went the Day Well or (1942) (Cavalcanti) or A Canterbury Tale (1944) (Powell and Pressburger)
4. Neo-Romanticism: either A Matter of Life and Death (1946) or The Red Shoes (1948) (Powell and Pressburger).
5. The Post-War 'Spiv' Cycle: either The Third Man (1949) (Carol Reed) or Brighton Rock (1947) (Boulting Brothers)
6. Women and Film I: Rebecca (1940) (Hitchcock)
7. Women and Film II: Brief Encounter (1945) (David Lean)
8. The Cinematic Gaze: Peeping Tom (1960) (Michael Powell)
9. The New Wave: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) (Karel Reisz)
10. Social Problem Films: A Taste of Honey (1962) (Tony Richardson) and/or Victim (1962) (Dearden)