Academic Calendar - 2024

Western University Academic Calendar. - 2024
Western Main Campus

Film Studies 3359F/G

FAMILY VIEWING: MELODRAMA


With an emphasis on questions of genre and gender, this course pays close attention to cinematic constructions of the home, site of the family, as a symbolic structure of identity. Relationships between the family, domestic space, and the space of the nation will be a central focus.

Antirequisite(s): Film Studies 3360F/G, if taken in 2013-2014 or 2015-2016.

Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in Film Studies 1020E or Film Studies 1022, or 1.0 of English 1000-1999 plus English 2112F/G, Film 2212F/G, or Theatre Studies 2212F/G, or permission of the department.

Extra Information: 2 lecture/seminar hours, 1 3-hour lecture/screening.

Course Weight: 0.50
Breadth: CATEGORY B i  
Subject Code: FILM

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