Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BBI-ANGF-202E
- Title
- British Society in Contemporary Films 1970-2014
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- Published semester
- 2025/26/2
- ECTS
- 5
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- The course intends to examine various British contemporary award winning auteur films by analysing their political, social, economic and cultural context.
- Course content
- We will watch and successively discuss some important scenes from various British auteur films from a selected list of contemporary award-winning British films and we shall discuss their social, economic and cultural context. Films are to be selected by the group from a suggested list during the first class.
- Assessment method
- A 5-page printed and referenced seminar paper on one of the 6 films we picked and watched, if you miss 2 double occassions, with your supervisor’s permission, you need to write a comparative paper (8 pages) on 2 or more films, and submit it by the given deadline.
- Bibliography
- Compulsory Readings: Helsby, Wendy: Understanding Representation (London: BFI, 2005) Hill, John: British Cinema in the 1980s (Oxford: Clarendon, 1999) Leggott, James : Contemporary British Cinema: From Heritage to Horror (London: Wallflowers, 2008)