Module Identifier | TF31320 | |||||||||||
Module Title | SHAKESPEARE ON FILM AND TELEVISION | |||||||||||
Academic Year | 2003/2004 | |||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Dr Mikel Koven | |||||||||||
Semester | Intended for use in future years | |||||||||||
Next year offered | N/A | |||||||||||
Next semester offered | N/A | |||||||||||
Pre-Requisite | TF10210 | |||||||||||
Course delivery | Lecture | 20 Hours Lecture/Seminars | ||||||||||
Other | Weekly viewing as timetabled | |||||||||||
Assessment |
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- critically assess the variety and often conflicting analytical paradigms which characterise the study of literary adaptations in general, and Shakespeare in film specifically;
- critically assess who a Shakespearian film is addressing, an discuss how that address is constructed;
- critically assess differing approaches to genre in the Shakespearian film;
- crucially assess the different perspectives between literary/theatre studies notion of the author, within film studies.
- 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.
This module is at CQFW Level 6