Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BBI-ANGF17-216E
- Title
- Icons on the Screen
- Usual semester
- Spring
- ECTS
- 5
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- The aim of the course is to provide an insight into the mechanisms of British popular culture through the filmic representations of iconic characters. During the course of the seminar the close reading of the filmic texts will be complemented by the comparative examination of their socio-cultural contexts.
- Course content
- The course introduces the students to the dialogue between different cultural registers through the study of the filmic appearance of four British iconic characters: the Spy (James Bond), the Detective (e.g. Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple), the Bard (William Shakespeare) and the British Monarch. An interdisciplinary approach is favoured, combining film theory with literary and cultural studies.
- 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
- Bristol, Michael D. Big-time Shakespeare. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Eco, Umberto. “Narrative Structures in Fleming.” The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts. Bloomington: Indiana U P, 1984. 144-72. Print. Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” Screen 16.3 (Autumn 1975): 6-18. Print. Shaughnessy, Robert, ed. Shakespeare in Popular Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 2007. Storey, John. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction. 5th ed. Harlow, London and New York: Pearson Longman, 2009. Print. Sturken, Maria and Lisa Cartwright. Practices of Looking. An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Print.