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Key facts
| Type | Weekly Classes |
|---|---|
| Location | Oxford |
| Address | Ewert House Ewert Place Summertown Oxford |
| Dates | Tue 16 Apr to Tue 18 Jun 2013 Day: Tuesday Time of meeting: 7.00-9.00pm Number of meetings: 10 |
| Subject area(s) | Film Studies |
| CATS points | 10 |
| Fees | From £165.00 |
| Application status | In progress - closed to new applications |
| Course code | O12P647FIW |
| Course contact | If you have any questions about this course, please email ppweekly@conted.ox.ac.uk. |
Overview
The course will explore the work of two highly successful and critically-acclaimed directors who have achieved their greatest success through popular film.We explore Michael Mann's and Kathyn Bigelow's powerful and imaginative reworking of film genreDescription
This course will explore the work of two highly successful and critically-acclaimed directors who have achieved their greatest work through popular film genres. Michael Mann’s work is celebrated in particular for his powerful Crime movies such as Heat, and Kathryn Bigelow’s has included Horror, SF, Crime and War movies, among which is the Oscar –winning, The Hurt Locker. We explore these two influential careers for their ability to present serious and imaginative ideas through film genres, and the ways their differing working methods nevertheless address many of the same issues of masculinity and heroism. Aspects of the directors' works will be explored through a study of key films and their consistent use of style and theme while contrasting the distinctiveness of their approaches to traditional genres.Programme details
Week 1: Introduction:Michael Mann's CareerWeek 2: Screening: Thief -
Week 3: Michael Mann and classic genres
Week 4: Heat -Hero, Villain and Society
Week 5: Later Crime Films, Style and Intertextuality
Week 6: Introduction to Kathryn Bigelow, 'Near Dark'
Week 7: Action Genre Revisions: Blue Steel
Week 8: Screening Cyberpunk and Strange Days
Week 9: Male Melodrama: Point Break
Week 10: Screening: The Hurt Locker, the War Hero
Background Reading:
Bordwell, D., The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies.
Foundas, S., Michael Mann (Masters of Cinema Series).
Jermun, D., The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor
Langford, B., Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond
Rybin, S., The Cinema of Michael Mann (Genre Film Auteurs)
Staff
Dr Peter Boss
Role: Tutor
Pete Boss (PhD in Film Studies) currently teaches on a wide variety of Film Studies programmes for Universities including Oxford Brookes and the...more
Course aims
Course Aim:To introduce the work of two key film makers working within classic genres and to explore the ways in which they have responded in creatively different ways, producing recognisably distinctive work that has both enriched the genres themselves as well as being part of a distinctively authored body of work.
Course Objectives:
1.To familiarise students with a range of work from two key popular film makers
2.To develop a critical understanding of these films through a detailed analysis of their form and style
3.To evaluate their significance in realtion to issues of both authroiship and genre
Assessment methods
Option B - short essays based on tutor suggestions or in agreement with student. essays will reflect a balance of film history, critical and analytical issues and methodsTeaching methods
Short Formal Lectures, Seminar-based discussion or occasional group work, Screenings of Whole films and extracts.Teaching outcomes
Students will have familiarity with a good range of the two directors' worksThey will understand the different ways that the film makers have dveloped a personal artistic vision while adapting the conventions of various genres
They will be able to discuss films and critical issues with a vocabulary appropriate to Film Studies
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