Seminar on Intermediality

Academic year: 2006-2007 Course code module EAFILM01K58180 Semester: 1st semester Credits: 4 Study load (hours) 112 Theory (hours): Practice/Exercises(hours): Other (hours): 30,00 Part-time program: 2 Instructor(s) Nathalie Roelens Language of instruction: Dutch Semester exam information: semester exam in January Contract restriction information: exam and credit contract not possible 1. Prerequisites *Algemene competenties A few general notions of film theory and literary theory *Sequentiality 2. Objectives (expected learning outcomes) Students are able to apply the material discussed during the sessions to new case analyses. 3. Course content We tend to forget that the film wouldn¿t have existed independently from the whole Western iconographic tradition, or, more radically expressed, in the terms of the French "mediologue" Régis Debray : "Hollywood is born in the year 787, during the second Nicea council (the decree that legitimised idolatry)". This seems to have left an explicit mark on some movies. Hence, purpose of this seminar is to interrogate "intermediality" as a mutual fecundation between art forms in both directions : plastic quotations, called "plans tableau" by Pascal Bonitzer, within singular movies (in Hitchcock, Kubrick, Godard, Rohmer, Pasolini, Greenaway, etc.) at the one hand ; filmic reminiscences inside fine arts (in cubo-futurism, dadaism or in painters such as Edward Hopper), at the other hand.Besides, case analyses will question the semiotic motivation for incorporating or rejecting the stylistic disparate element inside another medium.Ultimately, the film will also be examined on the larger background of visual culture in general (also through case analyses) : from photography and cartoons until television and hypertext. Intermediality refers then to a kind of contemporary intertextuality that involves images from several media and where hybridisation triumphs. 4. Teaching method Direct contact: Seminars (possible question and answer sessions) 5. Assessment method Exam: Oral, without written preparation 6. Compulsory reading – study material Excerpts of following books will be distributed in photocopies : - Rudolf Arnheim, Film as Art, University of California Press, 1957 - Jacques Fontanille, Les espaces subjectifs, Paris, Hachette, 1989 - Pascal Bonitzer, Peinture et cinéma. Décadrages, Editions de l¿Etoile, 1995 - Jacques Aumont, L'oeil interminable. Cinéma et peinture, Paris, Séguier, 1995 - Régis Debray, Cours de médiologie générale, Paris, Gallimard, 1991 - Régis Debray, Dieu, un itinéraire, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2001 - Patricia Pisters, Lessen van Hitchcock. Een inleiding in mediatheorie, Amsterdam, 2002 7. Recommended reading - study material Screenings 8. Tutoring laatste aanpassing: last update: 01/06/2006 01:01 ecampus