COD 2008 - G452

Film thrillers in the classroom

Students at TTC and Language and Literature Teachers.

1 sessions, start: 12-Jul

Course detail

Year: 2008
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. María Cristina Llorente
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Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 12 July 2008 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Facilitator/s

María Cristina Llorente

Maria Cristina has been a tenured lecturer of Language and Culture II , III and IV at Instituto Superior del Profesorado "Presbitero A.M. Sáenz "Lomas de Zamora. Director of Language Centre Graham Greene, Longchamps. She has attended courses on Cinema Studies with theorists Eduardo A. Russo, Carlos Gamerro and Javier Porta Fuz. English Literature and Film Studies tenured lecturer at Universidad Nacional del Litoral 2005-2006, and Tenured Lecturer of Literary Theory at Universidad Nacional del Litoral 2009. Licenciada en Inglés UNL (2009). Final thesis on the film The Silence of the Lambs. Has attended courses with film director Adrian Caetano and film critic Gustavo Noriega. She has studied Film Criticism at Escuela de Cine de la revista El Amante in Capital Federal.
Students at TTC and Language and Literature Teachers.
In this introductory course particular attention will be paid to cinematic narrative and the concept of the thriller as a "megagenre" (Rubin, 1999). Marin Rubin's book on the mythic subtext of thrillers will be used as the starting point of the session. After a brief introduction to the theoretical background, the course will be dedicated to the analysis of various kinds of film thrillers such as: "Strangers on a Train", directed by Alfred Hitchcock, "The Shining", directed by Stanley Kubric, "Minority Report", directed by Steven Spielberg, "Blade Runner", directed by Ridley Scott, "The Silence of the Lambs", directed by Jonathan Demme, "Seven", directed by David Finchner. Special attention will be paid to reception studies in connection with the etymology of the word thriller, which is derived from the Old English terms thrill (to pierce) and thrall (slave). This strongly suggests the idea that the spectator is both thrilled and enthralled by such type of cinematic texts.
The film thriller as megagenre. The mythic subtext of thrillers. The myth of the Labyrinth. The concept of partial vision and its relationship with suspense. The vulnerable hero and the feelings of masochism and sadism. Pedagogical implications in the classroom.
After a theoretical introduction to the cinematic concepts mentioned above, the scenes already mentioned will be watched and discussed.
- Rubin, M. (1999) Thrillers. Cambridge Uversity Press: Cambridge.
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