VSA2050

Remaking film: quotation, allusion and adaptation

(ART)

C Verevis and D Williams

6 points + 4 hours per week + Second semester + Clayton + Prerequisites: One subject at first-year level in Visual Culture, or Comparitive Literature and Cultural Studies, or English + Prohibition: VSA3050

Synopsis: From its very beginnings, the cinema has endlessly repeated and remade the same stories. This subject begins with the understanding that texts are not closed and self contained structures but are the repetition and transformation of other textual structures. Conceived in this way, film remaking becomes a particular, institutionalised instance of a type of quotation effect that exists in and for every film text. This subject broadly explores the idea of cinematic remaking - as intertextuality, quotation, literary and visual texts. More specifically, the film remake will be related to technologies and institutional practices which characterise film and the history of cinema.

Assessment: Visual test (1.5 hours): 40% + Essay (3000 words): 60%