Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Fall 2017 - HS 303 D200

Selected Topics in Hellenic Studies (4)

Cinema & Politics in the Mediterranean

Class Number: 7515

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 5 – Dec 4, 2017: Mon, 1:30–5:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

The study of issues related to Hellenic Studies not offered in regular courses.

COURSE DETAILS:

This course takes an interdisciplinary approach so as to reflect on 20th and 21st c. films from various countries of the Mediterranean. It addresses themes such as: ideology, identity, gender, narrative of crises, nostalgia, alienation, inter/national conflict, loss, migration, history, memory, love and violence. Its aim is: i) to study historical events, their impact and how they are reflected upon in selected visual narratives; ii) to identify and analyze key themes and concepts within each film that serve as commentary, shedding light onto, or problematizing the social reality of the period they refer to; iii) examine the intersections of contemporary history, theory, politics, non-/fiction, philosophy, culture and film.

Grading

  • Class Participation 15%
  • Presentation 15%
  • Midterm 30%
  • Term Paper 40%

NOTES:

HS 303 is cross-listed with HUM 385 and you may take this course under the HS or HUM designation

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Sikov, Ed. Film Studies: An Introduction (Columbia University Press, 2010)

Ardizzoni, Michela. Ferme, Valerio. Mediterranean Encounters in the City: Frameworks of Mediation Between East and West, North and South (Lexington, 2015)

RECOMMENDED READING:

McDonald, David. Film Theory: The Basics (Routledge, 2016)

Wildfeuer, Janina. Bateman, John A. Film Text Analysis: New Perspectives on the Analysis of Filmic Meaning (Taylor & Francis, 2016)

Whitehead, Stephen. Talahite, Anissa. Moodley, Roy. Gender and identity (Oxford University Press, 2013)

Laviosa, Flavia. Visions of Struggle in Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

Mackendrick, Alexander. On Film-making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director (Faber & Faber, 2005)

Pereboom, Maarten History and Film (Routledge, 2016)

Nichols, Bill. Speaking Truths with Film (University of California Press, 2016)

Kahana, Jonathan. The Documentary Film Reader: History, Theory, Criticism (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Braudy, Leo. Marshall, Cohen. Film Theory and Criticism (Oxford University Press, 2004)

Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century (Harper Perennial, 2000)

Stubbs, Jonathan. Historical Film (Bloomsbury, 2013)

Buelens, Gert. Durrant, Sam. Eaglestone, Robert. The Future of Trauma Theory: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Criticism (Routledge, 2014)

Registrar Notes:

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