Admission requirements
BA Afrikaanse Talen en culturen; BA Literatuurwetenschap; BA Nederlandkunde / Dutch Studies; BA Nederlandse Taal en Cultuur
Description
The course offers an overview of African cinematography and an analysis of African films. It will provide students with conceptual tools for discussing how films create “Africa” in the intertextual dialogue of past and present ‘stories’ retold or implicated as background in African films.
Course objectives
Acquire knowledge and understanding of African cinematography and film styles, themes, structures, and intertextuality
1. Understand and enjoy African films
2. Develop critical thinking and knowledge on filmic constructions of Africa
3. Acquire comparative methods and techniques of film analysis
4. Develop communication skills in oral and written expression (presentations and papers)
Timetable
Once a week (4 hours). NOTE: the course starts in the first week of October. Check dates on Blackboard and on website of the Dept. African Languages and Cultures
Onderwijsvorm
Lecture + watching films (2 + 2 hours)
Workshop
Collaborative learning
Course load
Total: 140/280 hours (5/10 EC)
Lecures: 10×4= 40
Exam: 4 hours
Reading, writing paper 96 hours/136 hours
Assessment method
Presentation (10%)
Take-home exam (40%)
Essay (50%)
All components should be passed.
Blackboard
Blackboad is used to offer program, study materials, power point presentations of lecturer and students, and announcement
Literature
Students find the reading list and study materials on Blackboard and in the course file at the Department (Dept. hall, building van Wijkplaats 4, first floor, right side). The students are expected to read the study materials before the lectures.
Example study materials:
Armes, R., Postcolonial Images, Indiana UP, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2005
Gugler, J., African Film, Indiana UP, Bloomington, j Currey, Oxford, D Philip, Cape Town, 2003
Thackway, M, Africa shoots back, Indiana UP, Bloomington, Currey, Oxford, D Philip, Cape Town, 2003.
Contact
Teacher Dr. D. Merolla
Remarks
Students can obtain extra ECTS by writing a larger and comparative research paper.