Course Details
Country:
Netherlands
Institution:
Free University of Amsterdam
Course Title:
Seeing is Believing: Film and Religion and the Construction of Sacredness Beyond the Limits of Representation and Articulation.
Course Number:
G_BATRSAL090
Course Description:
This course explores the limits of truth-telling and representation. Semantic and text-based approaches have a limited capacity to express the lived experience of people. This is perhaps most obvious when it comes to individual or collective trauma; to the void of reality that is beyond expression (the ‘real’ in Lacanian thinking); and to the experienced presence of sacred and divine realities - three experiences that are often referred to as the ‘unspeakable’, as something beyond articulation. In comparison to purely verbal representations of such experiences, film offers a rich repertoire of audiovisual tools that offers many opportunities of representing realities that are difficult to express in language. In this course, such filmic representations are explored by analyzing the cinematographic and narrative elements of film. In addition, the course discusses the limits of filmic representation as well, for film has its limits too when it comes to traumatic and sacred experiences.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
Pending For Approval
Attachment Files:
Studyguide (13)_13.pdf
