Module Identifier TF31720  
Module Title REPRESENTATIONS OF THE HOLOCAUST IN FILM  
Academic Year 2002/2003  
Co-ordinator Dr Mikel Koven  
Semester Semester 2  
Pre-Requisite TF10210 , TF31920  
Course delivery Lecture   20 Hours  
  Other   Weekly viewings  
Assessment Semester Assessment   Essay 1 - 2500 words   40%  
  Semester Assessment   Essay 2 - 2500 words   60%  
  Supplementary Assessment   as above    

Learning outcomes

Typically, on completion of this module, students will be able to:

-critically assess a history film as a product of a specific socio-political and cultural context;
-challenge the `authority? of `the filmed document? as it pertains to the Holocaust;
-critically assess how Hollywood films about the Holocaust address themselves to a mainstream American audience;
-critically assess how European films about the Holocaust address themselves to their domestic audiences, and how those audiences are assumed to be different from those of a Hollywood film.

Content

This module assumes that students already:

-have an understanding of the major critical discourses of film studies (i.e. the auteur theory, classical Hollywood cinema, genre study);
-know the basic terminology that film studies utilise (mise-en-scene, montage, frame, diegetic/non-diegetic sources, etc).
-are familiar with certain key textbooks, specifically Pam Cook's The Cinema Book and Bordwell and Thompson's Film Art: An Introduction.

Aims

-To introduce students to the idea of 'cinematic historiography, wherein the film text is seen as a discourse about history;
-To identify specific issues being dealt with an articulated by means of the presentation of specific historic event: the holocaust, through a specific medium: cinema.

Reading Lists

Books
PLEASE REFER TO THE MODULE HANDBOOK FOR A FULL READING LIST.