Modern Languages and Cultures |
The information contained in this module specification was correct at the time of publication but may be subject to change, either during the session because of unforeseen circumstances, or following review of the module at the end of the session. Queries about the module should be directed to the member of staff with responsibility for the module. |
Title | PROPAGANDA AND CENSORSHIP | ||
Code | FILM202 | ||
Coordinator |
Dr AF Plowman Modern Languages and Cultures Afp0001@liverpool.ac.uk |
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Year | CATS Level | Semester | CATS Value |
Session 2020-21 | Level 5 FHEQ | First Semester | 15 |
Pre-requisites before taking this module (other modules and/or general educational/academic requirements): |
Modules for which this module is a pre-requisite: |
Co-requisite modules: |
Teaching Schedule |
Lectures | Seminars | Tutorials | Lab Practicals | Fieldwork Placement | Other | TOTAL | |
Study Hours |
11 |
11 |
1 |
23 | |||
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Private Study | 127 | ||||||
TOTAL HOURS | 150 |
Assessment |
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EXAM | Duration | Timing (Semester) |
% of final mark |
Resit/resubmission opportunity |
Penalty for late submission |
Notes |
CONTINUOUS | Duration | Timing (Semester) |
% of final mark |
Resit/resubmission opportunity |
Penalty for late submission |
Notes |
Blog There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is an anonymous assessment. | 100 words blog entry | 15 | ||||
Coursework essay 2 There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is an anonymous assessment. | -2000 words | 50 | ||||
Group Wiki / Blog There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is an anonymous assessment. | 35 |
Aims |
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To provide students with an insight into the interaction of film and political authority, the structures which the authorities use or have used in order to exert control on the cinema and the ways in which cinema’s power over its audience has been harnessed, manipulated or occasionally feared to the point of suppression; To examine specific films, scenes from them and the controversies around them as case studies of the interaction of film and political and /or other authority; To introduce students to theoretical debates about propaganda and censorship in Film Studies. |
Learning Outcomes |
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(LO1) Students will gain a differentiated understanding of the way in which political and other authorities have sought to control, harness and curb the power of film in different historical situations. |
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(LO2) Students will gain an awareness of film’s position in national institutional structures and the effect of these onthe finished product and a historical perspective on the perceived purpose of and limits on film production in Europe. |
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(LO3) Students will develop an alertness to the ways in which film may seek to manipulate the viewer and a critical attitude to the theories that have been constructed regarding the effects of film on its audience. |
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(LO4) Students will develop an ability to use different kinds of textual evidence to present a balanced and sophisticated argument about complex issues of representation and control and to reach a reasoned conclusion recognising the power of social attitudes and desires in the formulation and conduct of debates in these fields. |
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(S1) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Presentation skills – oral |
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(S2) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Media analysis |
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(S3) Critical thinking and problem solving - Critical analysis |
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(S4) Research skills - All Information skills |
Teaching and Learning Strategies |
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Teaching Method 1 - Lecture Teaching Method 2 - Seminar Teaching Method 3 - Other Skill / other attribute 1: Skill / other attribute 2: Skill / other attribute 3: Skill / other attribute 4: |
Syllabus |
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Using some of the most controversial films ever made as case studies, this module examines the relation between film, political authority and public morality. The module examines films from the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, the German Democratic Republic, France, Italy, Spain and China. All films are shown with English subtitles and the modules is suitable for all students in HSS interested in film, propaganda and censorship. All films are subtitled in English if not in English. Topics will include: Introduction: What is propaganda? Soviet cinema and Eisenstein's October (1927); National Socialist cinema I: Triumph of the Will (Riefenstahl, 1934) and The Eternal Jew (Hippler, 1934)*; East German Film and the censorship of Maetzig's I am the Rabbit (1965); Political propaganda and censorship in Eastern Europe: Man of Marble (Wajda, 1977); Italian Cinema and Propaganda under Mussolini; Censorship and the politics of film in Spain under Franco; Italy, France and The Battle of Algiers (1965); topics in propaganda and censorship in Chinese film. * The Eternal Jew is not available commercially because of its content and it is not in the SJL. It is loaned from the educational collection of the Imperial War Museum. |
Recommended Texts |
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Reading lists are managed at readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk. Click here to access the reading lists for this module. |