Learning Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this module will:
- Have become familiar with the generic characteristics of prison films
- Have developed a solid knowledge about the historical development of the prison film genre
- Have become aware of the main social and representative issues related to coercive environments in different epochs and countries
- Have gained the ability to apply interdisciplinary perspectives to film analysis and write convincingly about the topic
- Have developed basic skills in video presentation of complex content.
Indicative Module Content:
Course Structure
Week 1. Introduction. Exploring the genre and politics of representation
Week 2. The prison escape film
Week 3. Inmates and guards
Week 4. The asylum
Week 5. Political prisoners
Week 6. Prison identities
Week 7. Bodies, minds, identity work
Week 8-9. Reading weeks
Week 10. Prison masculinities
Week 11. Women in prison
Week 12. Borstals and Magdalene laundries
Week 13. Contemporary docufictions and drama
Week 14. Conclusion, Q&A.