Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BBI-ANGF-208E
- Title
- Film Genres and their Re-interpretations in America
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- The course aims at a chronological and topological survey of 20th and early 21st century science fiction film in America.
- Course content
- Film theory, genre theory and science fiction film theory will provide the framework for discussing the films. Apart from a historical overview, and a pop-cultural contextualisation, the class will also focus on how science fiction films relate to and reflect on current social issues, like race relations, gender constructions, identity formation, and various political and social phenomena.
- Assessment method
- Completing the weekly assignments: watching the films, reading the theoretical texts, and submitting short weekly feedbacks on the films. 6-8 page essay on a chosen topic. Active in-class participation.
- Bibliography
- Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous Feminine: Film, Feminism and Psychonalysis. 1993. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Kuhn, Anette, ed. Alien Zone II: The Spaces of Science-fiction Cinema. London and New York: Verso, 1999. Sobchack, Vivian. Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film. 2nd ed. New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers U P, 2001. Telotte, J. P. Science Fiction Film. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 2004.