Module Identifier | TF31720 | ||||||||||||||
Module Title | REPRESENTATIONS OF THE HOLOCAUST IN FILM | ||||||||||||||
Academic Year | 2004/2005 | ||||||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||||
Other | Weekly viewings | ||||||||||||||
Assessment |
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-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.
-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