IDENTIFYING DATA 2015_16
Subject (*) LITERATURE AND CINEMA IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Code 12274239
Study programme
Bachelor's Degree in English Studies (2009)
 Cycle 1st
Descriptors Credits Type Year Period
6 Optional 1Q
Language
Anglès
Department Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys
Coordinator
LAMARCA MARGALEF, JORGE
 E-mail jordi.lamarca@urv.cat
Lecturers
LAMARCA MARGALEF, JORGE
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General description and relevant information The rationale of the course is based on film as a form of narrative. The aim of the course is to present and develop the basic principles of film as a narrative mode in relationship with the prose forms of the novel (and short story).

Competences
Type A Code Competences Specific
 A5 Dominar la llengua anglesa des d’un punt de vista teòric i pràctic i expressar-s’hi oralment i per escrit de manera fluida i precisa.
 A6 Analitzar les obres més rellevants de la literatura en llengua anglesa en els seus diversos entorns culturals.
Type B Code Competences Transversal
Type C Code Competences Nuclear

Learning outcomes
Type A Code Learning outcomes
 A5 Mostra un maneig de la llengua anglesa (de forma oral i/o escrita) en contextos diversos a un nivell superior.
 A6 Adquireix la capacitat d’establir la relació entre forma i contingut a les obres d’autors en llengua anglesa.
Analitza i comenta textos literaris de forma oral i/o escrita.
Coneix els principals moviments literaris i la seva inserció en els diversos contextos culturals i històrics.
Adquireix les eines necessàries per analitzar i avaluar obres literàries i cinematogràfiques des d'un punt de vista crític.
Type B Code Learning outcomes
Type C Code Learning outcomes

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Film as a visual medium Visual images
Montage
Juxtaposition
Sequence and shot
Dialogue and shot
Film and prose fiction Verbal signs and visual signs
Section and combination of shot versus dialogue and point of view
Readership and expectatorship
Theoretical components of the film The eye camera
Gaze
Spectatorship
Gender, age, class issues.
Comparison between film and fiction Script/plot
Character
Scenery
Sound/music/dialogue
Setting/bacground-

Planning
Methodologies  ::  Tests
  Competences (*) Class hours
 Hours outside the classroom
 (**) Total hours
Introductory activities
1 1 2
Problem solving, classroom exercises
A5
A6
 26 53 79
Lecture
A6
 29 20 49
Assignments
A5
A6
 1 6 7
Seminars
A5
 1 6 7
Personal tuition
2 4 6
 
 
(*) On e-learning, hours of virtual attendance of the teacher.
(**) The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies
  Description
Introductory activities A session at least will be devoted to explain the aim and the content of the course, objectives, methodology, assessment....
Problem solving, classroom exercises To focus on specific topics and how to develop them.
Lecture To provide general and specific information.
Assignments To narrow down topics and write about them.
Seminars To focus on subtopics and how to present them.
Personal tuition Personal meeting at my office in order to clarify academic points.

Personalized attention
Description
There will be office hours. Students should take benefit of them in order to ask questions, querries, discuss details of the syllabus and content of the course.

Assessment
Methodologies Competences Description Weight        
Problem solving, classroom exercises
A5
A6
 Exercises to be written in class 60%
Assignments
A5
A6
 Assignments 30%
Others  

Class attendance and participation

10%
 
Other comments and second exam session

The students who do not reach the 50% of the above-mentioned requirements will have a scheduled second chance, as well as those who have not opted to go through the continuos assessment (for further details see the course syllabus). This second chance will be the same for all students ( both those who failed the continuous assessment and those who opted for the final class exercise), and will consist in a final class exercisel of 20 questions (100%). These questions will be based on the units included in the syllabus (short definitions of concepts, identifications of names, titles, characters, short contextualizations of excertps from the texts analyzed ...).


Sources of information

Basic Montgomery, Martin et alia, Ways of Reading, Latest, Routledge
, The Oxford History of World Cinema, Latest, Oxford University Press
Beaver, Frank, Dictionary of Film Terms, Latest, Twayne
Lamarca, Jordi, Selection of Texts, Photocopies,

Complementary

Recommendations

Subjects that continue the syllabus
ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH TEXTS II/12274120
INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE/12274121
ENGLISH THEATRE/12274214
INTRODUCTION TO THE CULTURE OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES/12274123
NORTH-AMERICAN LITERATURE/12274216


Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before
ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH TEXTS II/12274120
INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE/12274121
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