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120037 AR Advanced Cultural Studies Course (426) = Cultural/Media Studies 1/2 (Cultural/Media Studies) (2009W)

Film and the Northern Irland "Troubles" 1968-1998

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Continuous assessment of course work

Diese LVA gilt für das Masterstudium English Language and Linguistics nach UG2002, das Diplomstudium (UniStG) und das Lehramt UF Englisch (UniStG).

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Registration is open from Tu 15.09.2009 14:00 to Mo 28.09.2009 14:00
Registration is open from Fr 02.10.2009 14:00 to Th 08.10.2009 14:00
Deregistration possible until Sa 31.10.2009 23:59

Details

max. 24 participants

Language: English

Lecturers

Robert Mahony

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Tuesday 13.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Tuesday 20.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Tuesday 27.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Tuesday 03.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Tuesday 10.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Tuesday 17.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Tuesday 24.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Tuesday 01.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Tuesday 15.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Tuesday 12.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Tuesday 19.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Tuesday 26.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland that erupted in the late 1960s and ran for about thirty years was Europe's longest postwar civil conflict, and gave rise to various military, paramilitary and policing styles and a range of political experiments, until the 'Good Friday' Agreement of 1998 won sufficient popular acceptance to enable a protracted period of 'peace,' or more accurately a period of largely nonviolent civil tension that still continues. Television news and entertainment programmes on the one hand, and documentary, independent and major-studio film-making, on the other, struggled with the challenge of presenting the causes and the nature of the 'Troubles,' often settling for an essentialist view of the conflict that might sell tickets or raise television ratings, but didn't advance peace, or even a cessation of violence.
We will be discussing a number of these films, made for cinemas or television, made in Ireland, Britain or the USA, to discern a rhetoric, or range of rhetorics, and the contribution the films made to the conflict or its resolution. Noteworthy in particular is the contrast between the largely irenic language of politicians deeply committed to the cessation of violence, and the rhetoric of grievance that film-making both examined and sustained.

Assessment and permitted materials

Papers and a final written examination.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

To interrogate the role of visual media in conflict situations by reference to one such situation of considerable length.

Examination topics

Interactive seminar, some lecturing.

Reading list

The best short overview of the conflict is Henry Patterson's "Ireland since 1939. Modernization and the Persistence of Conflict (Penguin 2006), which should be purchased; the best web-based source of material is the CAIN archive maintained by the University of Ulster (www.cain.ulst.ac.uk). I will make available a number of films for viewing, from the 1947 classic Odd Man Out and Marcel Ophul's rare 1972 documentary A Sense of Loss to Hollywood products like Some Mother's Son and Patriot Games.

Association in the course directory

Diplom 343, UF 344, MA 844

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