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