Department of European Studies & Modern Languages, Unit Catalogue 2008/09 |
EU50523 Images in transit: film and border crossings |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: CW 33%, ES 67% |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: Aims: To reach a comprehensive understanding of European cinema's exploration and articulation of areas of transition and change, whether geographical, linguistic, generic, or temporal, in relation to the insecure identities of postmodernism, and the cultural and historical movements and events that have shaped contemporary Europe. Learning objectives: On completion of this unit, students will be able to: * demonstrate originality in the analysis of the spatio-temporal language of film, in relation to the depiction of journey and change; * evaluate critically the significance of migration and change within contemporary European film and culture; * analyse critically the complex relationship between visual images, moving images, and language in filmic discourse. Content: This unit will examine the filmic articulation and cultural significance of such issues as: the theme of journey and time-travel; migration and change; the movement from text to image in literary adaptation, and from still to moving images in photography and film; directors and films in transition between Europe and the States; the shifting boundaries between past and present, history and memory. |