Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the module, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate critical understanding of a range of subcultural screen media through written and verbal language
- Develop an understanding of the economic and historical intersections between European art movements, subcultures, avant-garde cinema and video art
- Demonstrate writing skills that engage with theoretical materials around the concepts of marginalization, canonization, mainstream and underground cultures
- Channel knowledge gained from primary and secondary material into creative work, class participation and writing
- Demonstrate knowledge in creative methods of underground media by creating proof of concepts
Indicative Module Content:
Indicative Topics
Cult, Culture, Subculture
Paracinema and Fandom
Parody, Irony, Camp
Feminist Structuralism
Self-Reflexivity, Collectivity, Individualism
Trash Cinema
Blaxploitation
Cult Cinema
Eurotrash and Surrealism
Rip-offs
Indicative Textbooks
Barefoot, Guy. Trash Cinema: The Lure of the Low. Columbia University Press, 2017.
Garfield, Rachel. Experimental Filmmaking & Punk: Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s. Bloomsbury, 2022. (Introduction and Chapter 1)
Hawkins, Joan. Downtown Film and TV Culture 1975-2001, University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Hunter, I. Q. Cult Film as a Guide to Life: Fandom, Adaptation, and Identity. Bloomsbury, 2015.
Laderman, David. Punk Slash! Musicals: Tracking Slip-Sync on Film. University of Texas Press, 2011.
Mathijs, Ernest, and Jamie Sexton. The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema. Wallflower Press, 2004.
Rees, A.L. A History of Experimental Film and Video. 1999. BFI Publishing, 2005.
Rombes, Nicholas. New Punk Cinema. Edinburgh University Press, 2005.
Sconce, Jeffrey. Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics. Duke University Press, 2007.
Thorne, Tony. Dictionary of Contemporary Slang. Pantheon, 1990.