Course Schedule
Tuesday October 13 6pm-7:30pm (Dublin Time); Thursday October 15 6pm-7:30pm (Dublin Time)
Course Requirements
Read assigned texts
Participate in the live discussion and in the seminar forum
Complete a Research Paper
Reading Materials
Required:
Todd McGowan ‘Looking for the Gaze: Lacanian Film Theory and its Vicissitudes’ (article)
Laura Mulvey ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative
Todd McGowan Three lectures: Fantasy, the Gaze, Identity Politics
Recommended:
Sophie Fiennes ‘The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema’ and ‘The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology’
Todd McGowan ‘Capitalism and Desire’ ‘Emancipation after Hegel’
Technology and Environment
Students will need to have a computer and access to the internet, and to Zoom (free to download here: https://zoom.us). The mobile phone zoom app will work as long as the student has a way to use it hands free (we may need both our hands to make sound!). Students will also need a private, relatively quite space, to attend meetings, in order to make sound in uninhibited ways.
Assessment
Participation/Attendance
Raising questions and engaging with the course materials
Final Research Paper of 2,500 words
Description
Whether in the field of politics, religion or culture, ideology can be said to offer a way for us to disavow, justify or relativize the ‘existence’ of a tear in the fabric of reality. In this seminar, Helen will be arguing that the challenge we face today - like Job, when confronted with his comforters - involves resisting these attempts to avoid a direct confrontation with the gaze of Lack. Helen will employ the work of Lacan and Todd McGowan to explore how cinema is a field of conflict where this battle plays out. After offering a critique of ideological cinema, she will outline how film makers have the potential to be in the vanguard of contemporary ideology critique. In this way, Helen will offer a vision for a type of politically engaged, aesthetically rich, anti-ideological cinema that has the potential to impact an international audience.
The seminar will include a showing of Helen’s short film ‘Allone’
Prerequisite: None, but a familiarity with Film Theory is recommended but not required.
Learning Outcomes
Enhanced critical writing and thinking skills
Gain a deeper and more critical comprehension about film theory
Gain a introductory and intermediate understanding of psychoanalysis
Gain the ability to critically review and analyze psychoanalysis from the perspective of the moving image
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Enrollment Procedure:
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Refund:
A full refund will be given if after the first meeting you are not satisfied with the program.
Certificate of Completion
A PDF copy of a certificate will be issued to each participant upon successfully completing this program. Should the participant who completes the program desire a hard copy of the certificate be sent to them physically, there will be an additional charge for shipping and handling costs which may vary depending on the participant’s location.