Module Identifier | TF20320 | ||
Module Title | A CENTURY OF CINEMA 1: FILM AND CULTURAL IDENTITY | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr Ernest Mathijs | ||
Semester | Semester 1 | ||
Pre-Requisite | TF10610 | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 20 Hours | |
Seminars / Tutorials | 5 Hours | ||
Other | COMPULSORY WEEKLY VIEWINGS OF AROUND 2-3 HOURS EACH | ||
Assessment | Semester Exam | 2 Hours | 40% |
Semester Assessment | Essay: ESSAY (3500) | 60% |
Introductory lecture: what is cultural identity and how is it relevant for film studies?
Classical French Cinema and the portrayal of French cultural identity in the 1930s and 1940s.
Auteurism/French New Wave and the Godard-Truffaut paradigm of modern cultural identity in French and Francophone cinema (50s-60s-70s).
Postmodern French Cinema and the portrayal of cultural identity in the “Cinema du Look” (80s-90s)
Issues of Cultural Identity in Contemporary French Cinema: postcolonialism, banlieue cinema, beur cinema, explorations of sexual identity (90s)
World Wide Francophone Film and the legacy of French cultural identity
Cinema in the Low Countries and the lack of a template for the representation of cultural identity
Hong Kong Cinema and the portrayal of cultural identity in Martial Arts films
Hong Kong Cinema and issues of cultural identity in “heroic bloodshed” films and Category III films
The influence of Hong Kong Cinema on contemporary Korean and Japanese films
Seminar topics:
How to watch/study films as representations of cultural identity
Identifying themes, motives, discourses, and structures of cultural identity in French cinema:
Dealing with challenges to accepted representations of cultural identity: Belgian cinema, “New Sexuality” in French cinema.
Looking for European Cultural Identity: Roman Holiday (Wyler, 1953)
Representing and creating cultural identity in The Killer (Woo, 1988)