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FS5518: THE ANIMATE (2015-2016)

Last modified: 25 Mar 2016 11:39


Course Overview

This course will analyze the image’s intersections with life, death, movement and soul in a range of texts and works: Kleist, Baudelaire, Freud, Rilke, Benjamin, Schulz, Barthes, Whale, Lubitsch, Bellmer, Jonze, Scott, Erice, Disney, Svankmajer and the Quays.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Old Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Paul Flaig

Qualification Prerequisites

None.

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)
  • Either Master of Letters in Visual Culture (Studied) or M Litt in Creative Writing (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Whether as kinetically alive “motion pictures” or as uncanny doppelgangers of reality, photography and cinema have been approached by many artists, filmmakers and philosophers as unique forms of the animate. Often these forms of life in motion have attracted specific figures and concepts of animation: puppets, dolls, androids, animals, creatures, the undead, or particular things and spaces. Examining this conjunction of animate form and animated figure, this seminar will examine the image’s intersections with life, death, movement and soul in a range of texts and works: Kleist, Baudelaire, Freud, Rilke, Benjamin, Barthes, Whale, Lubitsch, Bellmer, Jonze, Scott, Erice, Disney, Svankmajer and the Quays.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

1st Attempt;  1 research essay (100%) (5000 words)

Resit:  1 research essay (100%) (5000 words)

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Feedback

None.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.
 

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