COD 2009 - G497

Film Club 2009 - Session August

Language and Literature teachers at all levels and TTC students.

1 sessions, start: 22-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2009
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. María Cristina Llorente
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Non affiliate
ARS 55.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 22 August 2009 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.
Language and Literature teachers at all levels and TTC students.

The aims of the course are the exploration of the process of film adaptation and the analysis and critical interpretation of the textual characteristics of different film genres. At the same time attendants to the sessions will come in contact with the basic elements of film language: Mise-en-scene, cinematography. Sound and editing.
This course aims at the development and enhancement of both our visual literacy and cinematic competence.
During the sessions several film adaptations of both canonical and non-canonical literary works will be viewed and discussed.The literary texts to be analysed are: "1984", "Macbeth", "In Cold Blood", "Atonement", "Death of a Salesman", "Dracula", "Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde". The film genres to be explored are: The Western, Science Fiction and Horror. Genre analysis will be carried out through the critical viewing of a number of representative cinematic texts such as "High Noon" (1952), directed by Fred Zinemann and "Blade Runner" (1982), directed by Ridley Scott.
During the sessions scenes and sequences of the film adaptations will be watched and analysed taking into consideration the process of semiotic transposition which takes place in film adaptations. The textual characteristics of film genres (themes, mise-en-scene, cinematography, plot, staple characters, editing, sound) will be explored and discussed in terms of both the production and reception of cinematic texts.
- Baker, J. & Toland, P. (2007) "Teaching Film at GCSE" London: BFI.
- Corrigan, T. & White, P. (2004) "The Film Experience" London: Bedford / St Martin's.
- Mireia, A. (2005) "Books in Motion. Adaptation, Intertextuality, Authorship" Amsterdam: Rodopi.
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