Film Analysis

This module includes a film screening series, lectures and seminars designed to explore the way dramatic narratives work and are constructed. Narrative Theory in the context of Film is about the relationship between characters in a film, between author and text, and between text and audience. How do we know what we are expected to know when watching a film? How are our sympathies provoked and our curiosity stoked by onscreen drama? The module will culminate in a 2000 word essay focused on an aspect of narrative screen theory that is intended to help you better understand how narrative works on screen and how you might thereby develop your own original screen narratives.