This course introduces students to various theoretical and practical approaches to different media and their roles within society. During the first part of the seminar, you will be made familiar with media history and theory as well as with the basics of film analysis, such as film narrative, cinematic techniques, and genre theory. The second part of the seminar will consist of analysing the 2004 BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s social novel North and South (1855) and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 adaptation of Bram Stoker’s gothic novel Dracula (1897). Our discussions will be informed by the contexts of the Victorian period, with a particular focus on the rapid technological and economic changes of the Industrial Revolution and their effects on British society.
Watching the assigned films and reading the assigned texts in preparation for each class is mandatory. In order to gain credits for this course, students will have to participate in a case study, which they will present in class.
- DozentIn: Nadja Freier