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New Course Proposal for:Childhood and Cinema
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Course Proposal Details for - Childhood and Cinema (Course code not assigned)
School
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
This course will explore the cinematic representations of
childhood in a wide range of films from across the globe. It
will investigate why the figure of the child has had such a
Course Description
significant impact on film, both formally and thematically and
how children have often been used to reflect the anxieties and
aspirations of modern life.
Normal Year Taken Year 1 Undergraduate
Course Level
UG
(PG/UG)
Visiting Student
Not available to visiting students
Availability
SCQF Credits
10
Credit Level
SCQF Level 7
(SCQF)
Home Subject Area Lifelong Learning (LLC)
Other Subject Area
Course Organiser
Martine Pierquin
Course Secretary
Sabine Murdoch
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Total contact
20
teaching hours
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none
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Intended Learning
Outcomes/L01
Martine Pierquin
Classes & Assessment excl. centrally arranged exam
Lifelong Learning - Session 1
Common Marking Scheme - UG Honours Mark/Grade
No
Standard
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Explain the development of the cinematic representation of
childhood
- Discuss the approach of a range of international filmmakers
toward childhood and the cinema.
- Understand the cultural and ideological factors influencing
the representation of childhood.
- Engage closely with a variety of theoretical texts regarding
cinema and childhood.
Learning Outcome 2
Learning Outcome 3
Learning Outcome 4
Learning Outcome 5
Special
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Components of
One 2000 word essay submitted after the course finishes, worth
Assessment
100% of the total course mark.
Exam Information
1. Family (1)
From Depression-era Japan to late-Franco Spain, we¿ll look at
the representation of childhood and family in An Inn In Tokyo
(Ozu), Fanny and Alexander (Bergman), Cria Cuervos (Saura)
Syllabus
2. Family (2)
The discussion of family continues in three more varied titles:
Our Mother's House (Clayton), The Neon Bible (Davies), The
White Balloon (Panahi)
3. School (1)
School life as seen by a variety of directors including Jean
Vigo (Zero de conduite), Truffaut (Les 400 coups) and Lindsay
Anderson (If...)
4. School (2)
A second week on school life, with examples from Italy
(Fellini¿s Amarcord), Australia (Weir¿s Picnic at Hanging
Rock) and the US (Linklater¿s The School of Rock)
5. Adventure (1)
We will explore the idea of childhood and adventure in Emil
and the Detectives (Lamprecht), ET (Spielberg) and Moonrise
Kingdom (Anderson)
6. Adventure (2)
Further discussion of childhood and adventure in films from
Iran, the US and South Korea: Son of Babylon (Al-Daradji),
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Zeitlin), Treeless Mountain
(Kim)
7. War
We¿ll explore the reasons why filmmakers have often turned to
child characters to portray the horrors of war. Titles to be
discussed include Germany Year Zero (Rossellini), Ivan's
Childhood (Tarkovsky) and Come and See (Klimov).
8. Love and Sexuality
Discussion of teenage romance and sexuality in Badlands
(Malick), Submarine (Ayoade) and Let The Right One In
(Alfredson).
9. Horror
The use of child characters in horror films such as Voyage of
the Damned (Rilla), The Innocents (Clayton) and Carrie (De
Palma)
10. Comedy
Academic
Description
Study Pattern
Transferable Skills
Critical thinking
Close textual analysis (both of film extracts and written
articles)
Participation in class discussion
Study Abroad
Lury, K. (2011) The Child in Film, London: IB Taurus.
Lebeau, V. (2008) Childhood and the Cinema, London:
Reaktion Books.
Reading Lists
Sinyard, N. (1992) Children in the Movies, London: Palgrave
MacMillan.
Olson, D. C. and Scahill, A. (eds), (2012) Lost and Othered
Children in Contemporary Cinema, Lanham: Lexington 2012
Wilson, E. (2002) Cinema¿s Missing Children, London:
Wallflower Press.
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