Taegliches Backup- und Wartungsfenster (04:00-05:00 Uhr): eingeschraenkte OPAL-Verfuegbarkeit.
Konfliktmanagementtraining für Lehramtsstudierende SoSe 2024
TU Chemnitz | Wintersemester 2026 / 2027
Konfliktmanagementtraining für Lehramtsstudierende SoSe 2024
21.-23.06.2024
Ergänzungsbereich Lehramt, Sommersemester 2024
Modul 271432-105 English Literatures: Postcolonial Theories and Methods
Modul 271432-107 English Literatures: Intertextuality in Intercultural Perspectives
S Reading Film: Intercultural and Postcolonial Perspectives
[M_AA_1 M_DK_3, M_AA_3 SGPhilWS]
Wednesday, 11:30-13:00, C10.106 (2/N106) First meeting: 14.10.2026
Conent:
This seminar explores film as a medium of intercultural dialogue, adaptation, and postcolonial representation. Drawing on theories of intertextuality, adaptation, and postcolonial studies, students will analyse how films negotiate cultural identities, migration, memory, belonging, and urban space across national and transnational contexts. Particular attention will be paid to the relationship between literary texts and their cinematic adaptations as well as to film as an independent form of cultural production. The seminar introduces key concepts from adaptation theory, including the work Linda Hutcheon, and Robert Stam, alongside central approaches in postcolonial studies by scholars such as Edward Said, Homi K. Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, or Stuart Hall. Students will also become familiar with methods of film analysis, including structure, cinematography, camera, mise-en-scène, editing, sound, and visual symbolism. The seminar is organised in collaboration with two international guest lecturers from The American College, Madurai (India) and Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (Slovakia). Six seminar sessions will be conducted jointly in an online format, providing students with the opportunity to engage in intercultural academic exchange and comparative discussions with students and colleagues from both partner institutions.
The course will conclude with a virtual student symposium during which international student groups will present comparative analyses of films selected from the seminar programme. These collaborative presentations will provide an opportunity to apply the theoretical approaches discussed throughout the course in an international academic setting. Films include Mrs Dalloway (1997), My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996), and The Namesake (2006) among others.
Objectives:
By the end of the seminar, students will be able to apply theories of intertextuality, adaptation, and postcolonialism to the analysis of film; analyse cinematic techniques and evaluate their contribution to meaning-making; critically discuss representations of diaspora, migration, identity, gender, home, and urban space in an international context; compare literary texts and their film adaptations using appropriate theoretical frameworks; collaborate in international teams and communicate scholarly arguments in intercultural academic contexts; develop and present independent critical analyses.
Requirements for Credits:
Students are expected to attend regularly, complete the assigned readings and film viewings, and participate actively in class discussions, including the online sessions with the partner universities.
MA 1 and MA 3 students: Regular attendance, active participation, and successful completion of the coursework specified during the semester; a group presentation during the online student symposium.
MA 3 students: Apart from regular attendance, active participation, a group presentation during the online symposium, a 25-minute oral module examination is required as part of the module exam. The oral examination will focus on selected films discussed during the seminar and will require students to apply the theoretical concepts introduced throughout the course.
Registration:
Please register via the OPAL course by 7 October 2026.
Lade Bewertungsübersicht
Lade Übersicht