Course Description

Course Name

Screening Desire, Projecting Anxiety: Psychoanalysis of Film

Session: VPGU1325

Hours & Credits

6 ECTS Credits

Prerequisites & Language Level

Taught In English

  • There is no language prerequisite for courses at this language level.

Overview

Introduction to psychoanalytic film theory, studies of desire and dread, theories of spectatorship, analyses of horror, comedy, and sci-fi, and topics such as Surrealism in film, mourning and melancholia, and the representation of various diagnostic categories
of mental illness on film. In addition, this course will introduce the new technique of Cinema Therapy.

*Course content subject to change