COD 2008 - PS36

We All Need a Superhero

Students at TTC and Language and Literature teachers.

2 sessions, start: 27-Sep

Course detail

Year: 2008
Level: Primary / Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Mónica Beatriz Cuello
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Non affiliate
ARS 80.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 27 September 2008 09:00 am 12:00 pm
2 11 October 2008 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Mónica Beatriz Cuello

Mónica Cuello, graduate teacher of English from ISP “Pbro. Dr. A. M. Saenz”, Licenciada en Inglés from Universidad Nacional del Litoral, belongs to the team of Literature lecturers at the English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate Centre. She has been a lecturer of Literatura Inglesa II at Universidad Nacional del Litoral and has taught IGCSE and IB literature at secondary schools. At present she teaches Language and Written Expression I and Language and Culture IV at ISP Saenz. She is also a tutor of English Language III and IV and Literatura de los Países de Habla Inglesa I and II at the Universidad Nacional de Lanús.
Students at TTC and Language and Literature teachers.
- Exploring Science Fiction as a cinematic genre.
- Discussing the textual features of the films: V for Vendetta, Batman Begins and Hulk.
- Discussing the figure of the hero.
- Discovering intertextual references with other types of texts.
This workshop explores the textual characteristics of popular Science-fiction films, namely V for Vendetta, Batman Begins and Hulk, which a teenage audience finds very appealing. Knowing about these texts, teachers could profit from the students’ command of the subject and encourage them to establish intertextual relations with different literary texts or historical facts that the teacher needs to present within the classroom context.

Session 1:
- Science Fiction as a cinematic genre.
- Origins.
- Textual characteristics. Generic conventions.
- V for Vendetta: analysis of the film in the light of the previous discussion.
- Suggestions for classwork.


Session 2:
- Batman Begins and Hulk.
- Analysis of the film in the light of the previous session.
- Suggestions for classwork.
The coordinator will briefly present the theoretical background, eliciting information from the participants. Then she´ll move on to cinematic texts, identifying the characteristics presented before and showing the possibilities they offer for teaching purposes.
Handouts will be provided.
- Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin (2003) The Empire Writes Back. Second Edition. London: Routledge.
- Dick , B. (1998) Anatomy of Film. St.Martin's Press, Inc.
- Lyotard, J. F. (1987) La Condición Postmoderna. Buenos Aires: REI Argentina.
- MacFarlane, R. (1996) Novel to Film: an Introduction to Adaptation Theory. Oxford University Press.
- Monaco, J. (2000) How to Read a film. Oxford University Press.
- Moreno, H. (2003) Cyberpunk, más allá de Matrix. Barcelona: Circulo Latino.
- Nelmes, J. (ed.) An Introduction to Film Studies. London: Routledge.
- Neale and Murray Smith (eds.) (1998). Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. New York and London: Routledge.
- Phillips, P. (2000) Understanding Film Texts. Meaning and Experience. British Film Institute.
- Pope, R. (2002) The English Studies Book, Second Edition, London and New York: Routledge.
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