- Department: English and Related Literature
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: M
- Academic year of delivery: 2024-25
- See module specification for other years: 2023-24
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Semester 1 2024-25 |
·To introduce the advanced study of the new cinemas of post-war Europe.
·To explore the historical, cultural and intellectual interrelations between these cinemas and contemporary literary culture.
·To place these interrelations in the context of the political reconstruction of post-war Europe and the rise of the Cold War.
·To develop an appropriate critical, historical and theoretical framework for the analysis of individual literary and film texts.
·To develop individual and collaborative skills of argument and presentation.
Subject content
Academic and graduate skills
Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 100 |
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Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 100 |
You will receive feedback on all assessed work within the University deadline, and will often receive it more quickly. The purpose of feedback is to inform your future work; it is designed to help you to improve your work, and the Department also offers you help in learning from your feedback. If you do not understand your feedback or want to talk about your ideas further you can discuss it with your module tutor, the MA Convenor or your supervisor, during their Open Office Hours
Films by Rossellini, Fellini, Visconti, Rosi, Bertolucci, Bresson, Godard, Truffaut, Fassbinder, Schl ¶ndorff; literary works by Boito, Lampedusa, Moravia, Levi, Bernanos, Roch ©, Fontane, Boll, Grass.