DRAMA EUROPEAN RUSSIA EASTERN-EUROPE STAGE THEATRE

The module introduces students to the main currents of modern European drama and theatre by providing an in-depth analysis of twelve most representative plays...

Staging Europe: Modern European Drama and Theatre (SEEE0011)

The module introduces students to the main currents of modern European drama and theatre by providing an in-depth analysis of twelve most representative plays by Henrik Ibsen, A. P. Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, Bertolt Brecht, Witold Gombrowicz, Jean Genet, Max Frisch, Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett and Tom Stoppard. The student will acquire knowledge of advanced methods of drama analysis and enhance their skills in drama and theatre analysis.

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The module works with the idea of “crime literature” as a mode of reading rather than as a specific literary genre. The focus...

Crime and Small Communities in Nordic Literature (SCAN0037)

In July 1943, Allied armies invaded Sicily, leading to the collapse of Mussolini&#039;s Fascist regime. Thereafter, Italy lived through perhaps the most...

Cinema and Literature from War to Reconstruction (ITAL0002)

In July 1943, Allied armies invaded Sicily, leading to the collapse of Mussolini's Fascist regime. Thereafter, Italy lived through perhaps the most tumultuous period in its history. As the Allies and Nazis battled it out, the resistance and recalcitrant Fascists fought a civil war behind the lines. With the Liberation came new expressive freedoms, but also social conflict and economic crisis, and the difficult process of constructing the political ground rules for the post-war Republic. When the Cold War began in 1947, Italy, which had the largest Communist Party in Western Europe, found itself on the front line. Meanwhile, as the first signs of economic recovery appeared, Hollywood, and American culture generally, fuelled new aspirations. 

This course studies the cinema and literature that reflected many of the issues of the decade following Mussolini's fall. It will also serve as an introduction to the study of narrative in film and literature more generally. The themes covered may include realism and 'Neorealism'; ideological conflict and propaganda; the legacy of the resistance; consumerism and glamour. 