Course Description
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Course Name
Screening Desire, Projecting Anxiety: Psychoanalysis of Film
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Host University
Anglo-American University
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Location
Prague, Czech Republic
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Area of Study
Media Studies
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Language Level
Taught In English
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ECTS Credits
6 -
Recommended U.S. Semester Credits3
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Recommended U.S. Quarter Units4
Hours & Credits
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Overview
Introduction to psychoanalytic film theory, studies of desire and dread, theories of spectatorship, analyses of horror, comedy, and sci-fi, and topics such as Surrealism in film, mourning and melancholia, and the representation of various diagnostic categories
of mental illness on film. In addition, this course will introduce the new technique of Cinema Therapy.