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Institut für Amerikastudien Institut für Amerikastudien

Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Mario Klarer, M.A. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Mario Klarer, M.A., +43 512 507 41604

610006

Film and the Other Arts

SE 2

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Englisch

New media always emerge within the context of established media practices. These intermedial negotiations also characterize the forming years of film during the modernist period. Taking recourse to the other arts, we will investigate the early tendency of film to define itself in relation to other leitmedia such as painting, literature, or the theater. The course will examine manifestations of the intermediality of early film in artistic and theoretical discourses such as tableaux vivants, film theory, film adaptations, avant-garde productions, film posters, trailers, and opening sequences. Part of the course entails the attendance of an international conference on "Blending Media: Defining Film during the Modernist Period" organized by the FWF Framing Media research project team at the University of Innsbruck from June 9 -10, 2009. The first part of the seminar will meet on a bi-weekly basis on 9 March, 23 March, 30 March, 20 April, 4 May, and 18 May. The second part of the seminar is integrated into the conference in June. Conference attendance is mandatory for completing the seminar.

Course requirements include: active class participation, a presentation, and a 20-page research paper. Students are encouraged to contact Mario Klarer for presentation topics prior to the seminar. The course is team-taught together with Erwin Feyersinger, Cornelia Klecker, and Christian Quendler. Conference attendance is mandatory for completing the seminar.

Presentation, active class participation, and conference attendance, as well as a 20-page research paper.

Students must have completed their "1. Studienabschnitt"
Beginn: 9.3.2009