Module Identifier
TF31720
Module Title
REPRESENTATIONS OF THE HOLOCAUST IN FILM
Academic Year
2008/2009
Co-ordinator
To Be Arranged
Semester
Intended for use in future years
Pre-Requisite
TF10210

Course Delivery

 

Assessment

Assessment Type Assessment length / details Proportion
Semester Assessment For information on due dates for submission of assessed work, please refer to the departmental web pages at http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/duedates.shtml   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;

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.

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 6