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European Directors (SMLM035) |
| MODULE CODE
SMLM035 |
MODULE LEVEL
M |
| European Directors |
| LECTURER(S) Professor Susan Hayward |
| CREDIT VALUE 20 |
ECTS VALUE 10 |
| PRE-REQUISITES |
| CO-REQUISITES |
| DURATION
OF MODULE One semester (first semester) |
| TOTAL
STUDENT STUDY TIME Lectures x 20 hours; Viewing x 20+ hours;
Reading/Research x 20+ hours. |
AIMS
To introduce students to some of the major European directors
across both art cinema and popular mainstream cinema. The course is designed in
such a way that students will elect to work on one of the directors from those
being taught and prepare an in-depth study on this director to be submitted as a
final assessment.
INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMESKnowledge of the film work of some of
Europe's leading postwar filmmakers [whether art cinema or popular]. Students
will learn how to approach the oeuvre of the selected filmmakers, questions
addressed will be what are his/her major preoccupations [aesthetically and
contextually speaking], in what way does their cinema reflect a national
consciousness.
LEARNING/TEACHING METHODSTen two-hour lectures held weekly throughout
one term.
ASSIGNMENTS One essay of 5,000 words on a director [or directors] of
student's choice.
ASSESSMENT One essay of 5,000 words on a director [or directors] of
student's choice.
SYLLABUS PLAN Weeks 1-2 French directors: Agnès Varda, Luc Besson
[Prof Susan Hayward/Dr Will Higbee]
Weeks 3-4 British directors: Mike
Figgis, Michael Winterbottom [Mr John Francis]
Weeks 5-6 Italian
directors: Liliana Calvani, Luchino Visconti [Dr Danielle Hipkins]
Weeks
7-8 Spanish directors: Luis Buñuel, Pedro Almodóvar [Dr Sally Faulkner]
Weeks 9-10 Russian directors: Aleksandrov, Tarkovskii [Dr Alastair
Renfrew]
INDICATIVE BASIC READING LISTFrench Directors
Alison Smith, Agnès Varda, Manchester: MUP, 1999
Susan Hayward,
Luc Besson, Manchester: MUP, 1998
British directors
Jonathan Hacker and David Price, Take 10: Contemporary British Film
Makers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991
Italian directors
Most book references are in Italian. Article references will be supplied.
Spanish directors
Paul Julian Smith, Desire Unlimited: The
Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar, London: Verso, 2000
Peter William Evans,
The Films of Luis Buñuel: Subjectivity and Desire, Oxford: OUP, 1995
Russian directors
Mark Le Fanu, The Cinema of Andrei
Tarkovsky, London: BFI, 1987
Peter Green, Andrei Tarkovsky: The
Winding Quest, Basingstoke: MacMillan, 1993
Maria Eizensberger, '"We
were born to turn a Fairy Tale into Reality": Grigori Alexandrov's The
Radiant Path', in Richard Taylor and Derek Spring, eds, Stalinism and
Soviet Cinema, London: Routledge, 1993, pp 97-108 |
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