124262 KO Critical Media Analysis (2016S)

All that Genre allows: Constructing Identities and Disrupting Fantasies in early Hollywood Melodrama and Film Noir

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

The class will introduce and familiarise students with the concept of genre films as established by the early Hollywood film industry: the main focus will be on the components of the thriller and the melodrama but other prototypical genre-constructions such as the western and the musical will also be explored.
Early Hollywood melodramas and noir thrillers constructed desirable ideas of identity, gender, nation and history and thus helped to favour a specific discourse about these concepts and yet they also often disrupted these cultural constructs.

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An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Anmeldung von Mi 17.02.2016 00:00 bis Di 23.02.2016 23:59
Abmeldung bis Do 31.03.2016 23:59

Details

max. 30 Teilnehmer*innen

Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Ranthild Salzer

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

Dear Students!
Please take note that the first session of this CMA class will take place on the 8th of April!!!
Attendance in the first session is mandatory. If you are absent without excuse you will lose your place in this CMA course.

    
    Freitag
    08.04.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Freitag
    15.04.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Freitag
    22.04.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Freitag
    29.04.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Freitag
    06.05.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Dienstag
    10.05.
    20:00 - 22:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Donnerstag
    12.05.
    20:00 - 22:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Freitag
    13.05.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Mittwoch
    18.05.
    20:00 - 22:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Donnerstag
    19.05.
    20:00 - 22:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Freitag
    20.05.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Freitag
    27.05.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Freitag
    03.06.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Donnerstag
    09.06.
    20:00 - 22:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Freitag
    10.06.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Dienstag
    14.06.
    20:00 - 22:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Freitag
    17.06.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
    
    Freitag
    24.06.
    12:00 - 14:00
    Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

By applying theoretical concepts from louis Althusser, Stuart Hall and Michel Foucault students will engage in a critical reading of the movies on the film-list and will try to assess how:

Establishing specific film genres codified particular understandings of American popular cultures

Genre films construct gender identities

Censorship in Hollywood of the time (the Hays Code) influenced what genre films could or could not say

Distinct strategies of identification are constructed in the chosen genre films

Views and opinions on historical events such as slavery, segregation, the Holocaust or World War II were shaped by Hollywood genre films

Personal, collective and cultural traumas were addressed and codified through Hollywood genre films

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

This course will encourage students to take a critical look at naturalised assumptions about the relationship between individual and society that are constructed in genre films.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

In addition to the visual material discussed in class, students have to read a selection of secondary texts. They will be asked to hold short presentations in class, hand in written assignments as well as take a final written exam.
All the articles and excerpts from books will be provided online via MOODLE.

Prüfungsstoff

The work done in class will invite students to ask how discourses on race, sexuality, gender and nation are constructed within genre films and how these constructions determine and influence our understanding of narrative cinema.

Literatur

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: UF 344, BA 612, BEd 046
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.5-426, BA07.3; BEd 08a.2, BEd 08b.1
Lehrinhalt: 12-4260

Letzte Änderung: Mi 09.09.2020 00:22