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Current Academic Year 2012 - 2013
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Module Title Otherness in European Cinema
Module Code LC549
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NFQ level 8 Credit Rating 5
Pre-requisite None
Co-requisite None
Compatibles None
Incompatibles None
Description
INACTIVE - The module offers a comparative survey of cinema from France, Germany,Italy and Spain (with reference at times to other European cinemas). The comparison is pursued through the theme of marginality as represented in the different national cinemas.

Learning Outcomes
1. Compare and contrast the mode and content of representations of marginality and Otherness in specific films.
2. Evaluate the role of film in questioning the norms and values of modern society through the figure of the Other.
3. Demonstrate insight into the relationships between different European cinematic traditions.



Workload Full-time hours per semester
Type Hours Description
Lecture24Weekly lectures
Independent learning71Viewing and Reading
Assignment30Essay preparation
Total Workload: 125

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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Focus.
The focus of the course will be Otherness, in a variety of periods and genres of films from France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Otherness in this sense is understood as relating to the identity of self and society/ group, and is a way of identifying the processes by which the individual, society and groups excludes those they feel do not fit into their society’s norms and values. Representations of marginality and Otherness will be considered in a thematic way with lectures structured around the topics of criminality, socio-political issues, gender, and ethnic-cultural encounters in each of the national cinema. Each lecture will be based on the presentation of one these and a discussion of films viewed. Discussion will place emphasis on the work of individual directors, on the context of the national cinemas of the time and on the changing treatment of the Other in European cinema..

Indicative films: Criminality/ Monsters.
Lang, 'M',Murnau, 'Nosferatu',Wienem, 'Cabinet of Dr Caligari',Audiard, 'Un prophète',Becker, 'Le Trou',Feuillade, 'Fantomas',Bellochio, 'Fists in the Pocket',Garrone, 'Gomorrah',Rosi, 'Salvatore Giuliano', 'Il caso Mattei'..

Indicative films: Socio-Political.
Renoir, 'Boudu sauvé des eaux',Truffaut, 'Les 400 coups',Costa-Gavras, 'L’aveu',Varda, 'Vagabond',Vigo, 'L’Atalante',Fassbinder, 'The Marriage of Maria Braun',Herzog, 'The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser',Wenders, 'The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty',Amelio, 'The Stolen Children',De Sica, 'Bicycle Thieves',Rossellini, 'Rome Open City',Visconti, 'Ossessione'..

Indicative films: Gender.
Godard, 'Vivre sa vie',Varda, 'Cléo de 5 à 7',Bertolucci, 'The Conformist',Ozpetek, 'The Ignorant Fairies',Almodóvar, 'Volver',Bollaín, 'Take My Eyes'..

Indicative films: Ethnic-Cultural Encounters.
Bouchareb, 'Days of Glory',Ferroukh, Le Grand Voyage',Gatlif, 'Gadjo Dilo',Kassovitz, 'La Haine',Kechiche, 'Couscous',Akin,'Head On',Baser, '40m of Germany',Fassbinder, 'Fear Eats up the Soul ',Bollaín, 'Flores de otro mundo',León de Aranoa, 'Princesas'..

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment100% Examination Weight0%
Course Work Breakdown
TypeDescription% of totalAssessment Date
EssayStudents choose one from a list of essay titles and write a 3,000-4,000 word essay.100%Sem 2 End
Reassessment Requirement
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories;
1 = A resit is available for all components of the module
2 = No resit is available for 100% continuous assessment module
3 = No resit is available for the continuous assessment component
This module is category 1
Indicative Reading List
  • Corbey, Raymond & Joep Leerssen (eds.): 1991, Alterity, identity, image: selves and others in society, Rodopi, Amsterdam,
  • Dyer, Richard & Vincendeau, Ginette (eds.): 1992, Popular European Cinema, Routledge, London,
  • Elsaesser, Thomas: 2005, European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood,, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam,
  • Everett, Wendy (ed.): 1996, European Identity in Cinema, Intellect Books, Exeter,
  • Everett, Wendy & Goodbody, Axel: 2005, Revisiting Space: Space and Place in European Cinema, New Studies in European Cinema, vol. 2, Peter Lang, Oxford,
  • Ezra, Elizabeth: 2004, European Cinema, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
  • Finney, Angus: 1996, The State of European Cinema: a New Dose of Reality, Cassell, London,
  • Mazierska, Ewa & Rascaroli, Laura: 2003, From Moscow to Madrid: Postmodern Cities, European Cinema, I B Tauris, London,
  • Petrie, Duncan J.: 1992, Screening Europe: Image and Identity in Contemporary European Cinema, BFI, London,
  • Powrie, Phil, Davies, Ann & Babington, Bruce: 2004, The Trouble with Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema, London, Wallflower Press, London,
  • Rings, Guido & Morgan-Tamosunas, Rikki: 2003, European Cinema: Inside Out. Images of the Self and the Other in Postcolonial European Film, Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg,
  • Rivi, Luisa: 2007, European Cinema after 1989: Cultural Identity and Transnational Production, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke,
  • Santaolalla, Isabel: 2000, "New" Exoticisms : Changing Patterns in the Construction of Otherness, Rodopi, Amsterdam,
  • Sieglohr, Ulrike: 2000, Heroines without Heroes: Reconstructing Female and National Identities in European Cinema, 1945-51, Cassell, New York,
  • Sorlin, Pierre: 1991, European Cinemas, European Societies, 1939-1990, Routledge, New York,
  • Vighi, Fabio: 2009, Sexual Difference in European Cinema: The Curse of Enjoyment, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke,
  • Vincendeau, Ginette (ed.): 1995, Encyclopaedia of European Cinema, Cassell and BFI, London,
  • Wood, Mary P.: 2007, Contemporary European Cinema, New York, Hodder Arnold,
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