Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- structure an argument in written form over 2000 words.
- present the findings from your reading in class discussion;
- analyse complex written texts, and work effectively across and between fictional, filmic and theoretical texts;
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Close textual analysis
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Utopianism and dystopianism in film and fiction.
- Key psychoanalytic concepts useful in the analysis of fantasy such as the uncanny and abjection;
- Some important fantasy and horror sub-genres, such as body horror, the children’s fantasy film, gothic/supernatural horror;
- the ways in which the module texts operate as a space in which sexual, racial and other forms of difference are interrogated;
- The critical relationship between filmic and literary texts, including theories of adaptation;
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- deploy key film theories and methodologies in the analysis of both filmic and literary texts;
- describe the primary qualities of various fantasy sub-genres
- evaluate and put to work relevant psychoanalytic and gender theories;
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Teaching | 27 |
| Independent Study | 123 |
| Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Twleve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, US 1996). Film
A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, UK 1946). Film
Shrek (Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, US 2001). Film
B ra m St oke r’s Dra cula (Francis Ford Coppola, US 1992). Film
Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett, US/Canada 2000). Film
The Fly (David Cronenberg, US 1986). Film
Brazil (Terry Gilliam, UK 1985). Film
Ros e ma ry’s Baby (Roman Polanski, US 1968). Film
Orlando (Sally Potter, UK 1992). Film
The Others (Alejandro Amenábar, US 2001). Film
The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, US 1939). Film
Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter et al, US 1999). Film
Textbooks
Virginia Woolf. Orlando.
Bram Stoker. Dracula.
Barbara Creed (1993). The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge.
Angela Carter. The Bloody Chamber.
Carol J. Clover (1992). Men, Women and Chain Saws: Gender in the modern horror film. London: BFI.
Annette Kuhn (ed) (1990). Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema. London: Verso.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
Assessments designed to provide informal, on-module feedback • short presentation each seminar on the reading/viewing you have done in preparation for that class; • individual consultation in preparation for essays, and feedback when the essay is marked.Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Essay | 40% |
| Essay | 60% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Resubmit assessments | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External