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FS3509: TOPIC IN FILM AND VISUAL CULTURE A (2019-2020)

Last modified: 25 Sep 2019 09:58


Course Overview

This course focuses on a range of ways that cinema and dream relate to one another. It explores how leading filmmakers have found creative inspiration in dream and depicted dream sequences, dream states, dream logics and dreamworlds, and the ways in which oneiric film technique has been discussed by scholars. This historically contextualised survey includes early film theory, Freudian and Jungian dream analysis, psychoanalytic film theory, film semiotics, and recent developments in cognitive film theory and neurocinema. Students will examine themes of memory, childhood, the unconscious, the uncanny, symbolism, fantasy, daydreaming, creativity, autobiography, trauma, exile, folklore, the Gothic, enigma and lucid dreaming.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 3
Term Second Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Executive Assistant Laura Bowie

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course focuses on a range of ways that cinema and dream relate to one another. It explores how leading filmmakers have found creative inspiration in dream and depicted dream sequences, dream states, dream logics and dreamworlds, and the ways in which oneiric film technique has been discussed by scholars. This historically contextualised survey includes early film theory, Freudian and Jungian dream analysis, psychoanalytic film theory, film semiotics, and recent developments in cognitive film theory and neurocinema. Students will examine themes of memory, childhood, the unconscious, the uncanny, symbolism, fantasy, daydreaming, creativity, autobiography, trauma, exile, folklore, the Gothic, enigma and lucid dreaming.


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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Essay

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Learning Outcomes
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Formative Assessment

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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandStudents will gain knowledge and understanding of the various ways in which the relationship between cinema and dream relate to film/dream analogy.
ConceptualEvaluateStudents will develop knowledge by reading dream films closely, identifying parallels and differences in terms of styles, genres and techniques.
ProceduralCreateStudents will produce high-quality analytical work, engaging critically with the topics studied.
ReflectionApplyStudents will participate in reflective discussion and lead seminar discussion
ConceptualUnderstandStudents will use appropriate methodologies and synthesise ideas drawn from a variety of sources

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