American Film- MA Seminar 4 3301-LAS4PA2
The seminar will be concerned with historical, generic and thematic approaches to the American film. It will focus, among others, on generic formulas in different periods and on the evolution of such formulas. This evolution entails changes in the ways of constructing imagery and, subsequently, leads to modifications of ideological senses. Film will be seen as a medium that involves a variety of esthetic and cultural contexts. Particular attention will be paid to the connections between literature and film.
Type of course
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Learning outcomes
A student acquires historical knowledge of film, is capable of analyzing a film from a narrative and generic perspective, sees connections between film and other arts, especially literature.
Assessment criteria
Attendance and the progress in the preparation of the M.A. thesis.
Bibliography
1) John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson, eds., The Oxford Guide to Film Studies, Oxford UP 1998.2) Tadeusz Lubelski, Iwona Sowińska, Rafał Syska, eds., Historia kina. Kino nieme, Universitas 2010.3) Richard Maltby, Hollywood Cinema, Blackwell 2003.4) R.L. Rutsky and Jeffrey Geiger, Film Analysis. A Norton Reader, Norton 2005.5) Robert Stam, Robert Burgoyne, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics, Routledge 1992.
Additional information
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