You will find it beneficial to browse through the publications to gain a better understanding of the key concepts for all aspects of both subjects:
- Research
- Theory
- Exam Prep
- Production
Wednesday 29 February 2012
On-line Books Page
You will find it beneficial to browse through the publications to gain a better understanding of the key concepts for all aspects of both subjects:
Tuesday 28 February 2012
FM4 - Single Film - Critical Study: Fight Club
This paper (click on image) will outline and describe the main aspects of psychoanalytical film theory as well as provide relevant examples through Fincher's (1998) adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's 'Fight Club'.
Issues of spectatorship and identification will be addressed in accordance with the filmic apparatus theory as well through acknowledging Lacanian psychoanalysis as an extension of Freud's original theories.
Monday 27 February 2012
FM4 - Single Film - Critical Study: Fight Club
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| Click on the image to access a useful paper on 'Fight Club' |
Monday 20 February 2012
FM4/MS4: Postmodern Theory - Everything is a Remix Part 1
Apply the same principals to your key texts (Nirvana/Radiohead/Lady Gaga) and you will develop theoretical constructs that are key to a better understanding of the way that media texts can be analysed more culturally and academically.
Tuesday 7 February 2012
Saturday 4 February 2012
FM4 - Spectatorship - Chris Cunningham: Experimental and Expanded Film/Video
Chris Cunningham's video installation Flex was first shown in 2000 at the Royal Academy of Arts, and subsequently at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery and other art galleries. Flex was commissioned by the Anthony d'Offay Gallery for the Apocalypse: Beauty & Horror in Contemporary Art exhibition curated by Norman Rosenthal and Max Wigram at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2000.
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Friday 3 February 2012
Patience (After Sebald)
This modest, immensely enjoyable documentary is about The Rings of Saturn by the German poet and critic WG Sebald, who was born in 1944, taught for much of his adult life in this country, mainly at the University of East Anglia, and was killed in a motor accident in 2001. It was first published in German in 1995, translated into English three years later and is an account of a walking tour of Suffolk, the people he meets, the places he visits, and the historical and literary reflections prompted by what he sees and senses, taking his mind around the world. Suffolk becomes a sort of palimpsest for his eloquent, precise, lugubrious, often drily witty meditations about war, death, destruction and decay, about memories and continuities and the feeling that nothing entirely disappears.
The film is largely shot in grainy grey-and-white, which matches the photographs, etchings and documents that illustrate the author's text, though from time to time small frames of colour film are imposed on these monochrome images. Jonathan Pryce reads from the book, and these words are occasionally imposed on the film. A variety of admirers, friends and students of Sebald comment on his work, some highly personal (Andrew Motion, a one-time colleague at UEA, talks of visiting the vanished town of Dunwich as a child), some scholastically (cultural historian Marina Warner discusses Saturn and the roots of melancholy), and sometimes from the perspective of a fellow practitioner (Iain Sinclair, who has made not wholly dissimilar psycho-historical journeys).
Grant Gee's film should make anyone want to read The Rings of Saturn and the rest of Sebald's relatively small but exquisite oeuvre, some eight or nine books in all. Cinephiles in particular should look out the essay "Kafka Goes to the Movies" in Sebald's collection Campo Santo.
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