CHINESE FILM|HEALTH|THE BODY|MODERN HISTORY|WORLD HISTORY

This module will use the media of Chinese film to analyse representations of social and cultural issues related to health and the body in twentieth and...

This module will use the media of Chinese film to analyse representations of social and cultural issues related to health and the body in twentieth and twenty-first century China. A set of ten Chinese films will form the core content of this module, ordered thematically: the films change each year but may include 1950s hagiographies of traditional doctors, eulogies of revolutionary health campaigns to depictions of women and women and children’s health, the martial arts and the experience of drug use, and the contemporary health system. The module provides opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the relationship between filmmaking and representations and the unique conditions of health and the body in China.

Note on timetable: This module begins after reading week in Term 1 and teaching continues until the final day of reading week in Term 2. Attendance is compulsory during a week of intensive teaching during reading week in Term 2.

The Romans and Their Past offers an introduction to some of the main sources for Roman history, and to Roman ways of representing individuals and institutions...

The Romans and Their Past offers an introduction to some of the main sources for Roman history, and to Roman ways of representing individuals and institutions from the distant and recent past. The first half of the module concentrates on the 'facts' and interpretations of early Roman history and the Hannibalic War offered by historians and poets of the age of Augustus; the second half looks at the Roman state and politics from the perspective of Cicero, and at the emperors Caligula and Claudius as critically portrayed by Tacitus and Suetonius. The aim is to show how our knowledge of Roman history is shaped by the nature of each of these sources.