COD 2011 - G611

Cultural Programme: Film Club 2011 - April Session

Language and Literature teachers at all levels and TTC students.

1 sessions, start: 16-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2011
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. María Cristina Llorente
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Non affiliate
ARS 80.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 16 April 2011 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 main aims of the course are:
- To introduce the audience to the field of Film Studies.
- To analyse the process of film adaptation.
- To explore different kinds of film texts.
- To discuss how cinematic texs may be exploited in the classroom.
The following texst and their cinematic adaptations will be analysed during 2011:
April Session: "The Hours"
May Session: "Wit"
June Session: "Angels and Insects"
July Session: "Othello"
August Session: "Emma and Sense and Sensibility"
September Session: "The Postman always rings twice (film noir)"
October Session: "The picture of Dorian Gray"
November Session: "Tales of mystery and Imagination"
Teachers interested in how the field of Film Studies may be fruitfully articulated with subjects such as Literature, Social Studies, History, Sociology, Psychology, Art Education in order to design interdisciplinary projects.
The Film Club offers the possibility to analyse the process of film adaptation or intersemiotic translation and, at the same time, the audience is exposed to diverse kinds of cinematic texts which may be used in the classroom in multiple ways.
During the sessions excerpts from the film adaptations will be screened and discussed taking the aims of the course into considerarion.
- Stam, R. and Raengo, A. (2005) Literature and Film.A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation.Blackwell Publishing.
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