The Beautiful in Film

Uitgebreide vaknaam	The Beautiful in Film
Leerdoelen	After this course students will have... - a better understanding of the field of aesthetics - learned to reflect on their aesthetic experiences - an improved understanding of the aesthetic category of the beautiful in film - know how to relate theories from outside film studies (such as philosophy or empirical aesthetics) to films - have a better sense of how set up a research project of a particular dimension that investigates the topic of film and the beautiful - executed, with a high level of English proficiency, a final written essay.
Omschrijving	This 7-week seminar aims to shed light on the role of the beautiful in film. While a key concept in the history of aesthetics, the beautiful rarely figures in scholarly work on the cinema. To make room for it, we will ask ourselves questions such as: - When can a film be called beautiful? - What are the benefits of being confronted with beauty in films? - Why are discussions so often restricted to the physical beauty of actors? - What might moral beauty mean in films? To this end, we will read classical and more recent texts, which may include philosophers and theorists such as Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, Béla Balázs, Elaine Scarry, Alexander Nehamas, Patrick Colm Hogan or Bence Nanay. We will also compare the beautiful to related and opposing aesthetic concepts such as the moving, the cute, the kitschy, the interesting, the ugly, the sublime, or the uncanny. Not least, the seminar contains screenings of (scenes from) classical and contemporary films by directors like Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Stan Brakhage, Wong-kar Wai, Todd Haynes, Terrence Malick, Paolo Sorrentino, Céline Sciamma or Olivier Assayas. Students interested in this course need to buy Bence Nanay's Aesthetics: A Very Brief Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2019) and read pp. 1-71 before the first seminar session!
Uren per week	4
Onderwijsvorm	werkcollege
Vaksoort	master
Coördinator	prof. dr. J. Hanich
Docent(en)	prof. dr. J. Hanich
Verplichte literatuur	Titel Auteur ISBN Prijs Aesthetics: A Very Brief Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2019) Bence Nanay TBA
Entreevoorwaarden	Students need admission to the Master track 'Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media.' Students from other tracks of the MA 'Arts and Culture' may be admitted, but need the green light of the Study Advisor and the lecturer. The same goes for ERASMUS exchange students.
Opmerkingen	Students need to buy Bence Nanay's Aesthetics: A Very Brief Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2019) and read pp. 1-71 before the first seminar session! The other readings will be available through the learning platform NESTOR.
Opgenomen in	Opleiding Jaar Periode Type Ma Kunst- en Cultuurwetenschappen (Kunsten, Cultuur en Media/Kunstgeschiedenis)  (Ma Arts, Culture and Media: Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media) 1 semester I b keuzegroep Ma Kunst- en Cultuurwetenschappen (Kunsten, Cultuur en Media/Kunstgeschiedenis)  (Ma Arts, Culture and Media: Optional Modules) 1 semester I b keuzegroep