Department of European Studies & Modern Languages, Unit Catalogue 2008/09 |
EU50522 Film and identity |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: CW 33%, ES 67% |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: Aims: To foster the evaluation of the role of European cinema in the articulation, interrogation, and construction of subjective and collective identities, with particular reference to autobiographical memory. Learning objectives: On completion of this unit, students will be able to: * demonstrate understanding of the role of visual images within the processes of remembering and the creation of historical narratives; * demonstrate understanding of the nature and theory of autobiographical discourse, and account for its centrality within postmodern European film and culture; * analyse critically filmic autobiography within the context of current critical debate concerning first person camera, the auteur theory, and theories of identity; Content: This unit will examine questions of identity in relation to memory and history, with particular reference to autobiography, and will include such elements as: the construction of identities (subjective; regional; national), and the nature of the Other; the theory and practice of filmic autobiography; the topographies of childhood; the autobiographical discourse of female directors; first person camera; the relationship between history, myth and identity; self-reflexivity and postmodernism in autobiographical film. |