Week 12-13: Psychoanalytic Film Theory
Psychoanalysis, as inaugurated by Sigmund Freud, analyzes the psyche, which, according to the theory, is a site of irrational and unconscious conflict between primal desires and traumatic realities. The following slides represent the core of Freud’s theory regarding models of psyche, unconscious and repression, pleasure and reality, sexuality, basic disorders, and symptom and cure.
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Course Material
- Week 1: Introduction to Film, Components and Stages of Film
- Week 2: Film as a Form of Media
- Week 3: History and Development of Hollywood, Indian and Pakistani Cinema
- Week 4-5: Film and Meanings; Semiotics of Cinema
- Week 6-7: Film Narrative and Styles
- Week 8: Presentations
- Week 9: Modes of Filmmaking
- Week 10-11: Feminist Film Theory
- Week 12-13: Psychoanalytic Film Theory
- week 14: Critical Analysis on Screen/Cinema
- Week 15: Filmosophy: The Basic Concept of Film Philosophy
- week 16: Presentations
- Chapters 12
- Department Communication and Media Studies
- Teacher
Rub Nawaz
