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This course focuses on a range of ways that cinema and dream relate to one another. It explores how leading filmmakers have found creative inspiration in dream and depicted dream sequences, dream states, dream logics and dreamworlds, and the ways in which oneiric film technique has been discussed by scholars. This historically contextualised survey includes early film theory, Freudian and Jungian dream analysis, psychoanalytic film theory, film semiotics, and recent developments in cognitive film theory and neurocinema. Students will examine themes of memory, childhood, the unconscious, the uncanny, symbolism, fantasy, daydreaming, creativity, autobiography, trauma, exile, folklore, the Gothic, enigma and lucid dreaming.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 4 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Film and Dream
This course focuses on a range of ways that cinema and dream relate to one another. It explores how leading filmmakers have found creative inspiration in dream and depicted dream sequences, dream states, dream logics and dreamworlds, and the ways in which oneiric film technique has been discussed by scholars. This historically contextualised survey includes early film theory, Freudian and Jungian dream analysis, psychoanalytic film theory, film semiotics, and recent developments in cognitive film theory and neurocinema. Students will examine themes of memory, childhood, the unconscious, the uncanny, symbolism, fantasy, daydreaming, creativity, autobiography, trauma, exile, folklore, the Gothic, enigma and lucid dreaming.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 40 | |
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| Feedback | Word Count | 2500 | ||
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 40 | |
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There are no assessments for this course.
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Understand | Students will gain knowledge and understanding of the various ways in which the relationship between cinema and dream relate to film/dream analogy. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Students will develop knowledge by reading dream films closely, identifying parallels and differences in terms of styles, genres and techniques. |
| Procedural | Create | Students will produce high-quality analytical work, engaging critically with the topics studied. |
| Reflection | Apply | Students will participate in reflective discussion and lead seminar discussion |
| Conceptual | Understand | Students will use appropriate methodologies and synthesise ideas drawn from a variety of sources |
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