COD 2009 - G501

Great Film Directors: Tim Burton: A Dreamer's Vision

Teachers at all levels.

1 sessions, start: 29-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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Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 29 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.
Teachers at all levels.
The purpose of the present session is to introduce the attendants to the cinematic texts and poems created by this visionary director. Burton is the creator of unforgettable characters such as Edward Scissorhands and Jack Skellington. His films have always fascinated both children and teenagers alike. During the session some of his poems will be read and discussed .At the same time Burton's early shorts will be screened and analysed. Finally some scenes from "Edward Scissorhands "(1990) will be analysed, thus encouraging the audience to prepare an appealing and challenging school project which may bring art, literature and film together.
Poems, sketches and early shorts created by Burton. The film "Edward Scissorhands" (1990).
The audience will read and view the work of this imaginative artist trying to establish the main themes of his work.
- Burton, Tim (1997) "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories", London: Faber and Faber.
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