
- UCAS course code
- PR40
- UCAS institution code
- M20
Course unit details:
Social Lives of Cinema
Unit code | DRAM30842 |
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Credit rating | 20 |
Unit level | Level 3 |
Teaching period(s) | Semester 2 |
Offered by | Drama |
Available as a free choice unit? | No |
Overview
This course examines the uses and the social lives of cinema by considering the ways in which cinema has been circulated, exhibited, and received by different groups of people all over the world, from the mid-twentieth century onwards. The first half of the module explores the embodied, empathetic and eroticised ways that people watch and engage with films. Then, building on these different modes of spectatorship and reception, the second half of the module surveys the ways in which cinema has been used to build and reify different kinds of communities, from empires and colonies to subcultures and movements of resistance. Distribution, exhibition and reception practices that will be explored include dementia-friendly screenings, midnight movies, and film festivals. Films that we will study include Crazy Rich Asians, The Rocky Picture Horror Show, and Atlantiques.
Pre/co-requisites
Available on which programme(s)? | All Drama and Film/Screen related Degree programmes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Available as Free Choice (UG) or to other programmes (PG)? | Yes, PG | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Available to students on an Erasmus programme | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pre/Co/Antirequisite units |
Representative examples include: Block 1: Watching Films Block 2: Building Communities Feedback method Formative or Summative Seminar presentation – oral Formative Essay – written Summative Final essay or creative project – written Summative Consultation
Indicative bibliography Stacey, Jackie, 1994. Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship, London: Routledge. Marks, Laura, 2000. The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Klinger, Barbara, 1997. ‘Film History Terminable and Interminable: Recovering the Past in Reception Studies’, in Screen 38: 2, pp. 107 – 128. Willemen, Paul, 2006. ‘For a Comparative Film Studies’, in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 6: 1, pp. 98 – 112. Taylor-Jones, Kate, 2017. Divine Work, Japanese Colonial Cinema and Its Legacy, London: Bloomsbury Academic. Dovey, Lindiwe, 2014. Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Dudrah, Rajinder, 2012. Bollywood Travels: Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Vélez-Serna, Maria, 20
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