JAN 28-30

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Tues, Jan 28


VIEW: X-Files, ‘Jose Chung’s From Outer Space’


READ:

  1. BulletPeter Brooks, Reading for the Plot, 227-29, 234-35

  2. BulletPrimer on X-Files, ‘Jose Chung’s From Outer Space’

  3. BulletDefinition of ‘frame narrative’

  4. Bullet“transference”

  5. BulletFreud Module on Trauma and Transference


Thurs, Jan 30


REVIEW:

  1. Bullet Material from Tuesday

FILL IN THE X; OR, THE ABCs OF NARRATOLOGY


In these first four weeks, I will introduce students to the basic structures of narrative form, specifically the distinction between "story" and "discourse" and between the "proairetic and hermeneutic codes" of narrative. Students will also begin to analyze film, thus becoming familiar with those terms from film theory that we will build on over the course of the semester. Two pop cultural shows (Star Trek: The Next Generation and The X-Files) and one experimental film (La jetée) will serve to help us in our exploration of the narrative limitations of human consciousness.

 

  INTROS

  TERMS

"The Citizen Kane of X-Files Shows"


 

The Citizen Kane of X-Files

ENGL 373H: The Theory of SF&F

INSTRUCTOR         : Prof. Felluga

OFFICE                    : HEAV 430

OFFICE HOURS      : T,Th 10:30-11:30 (or email me)

E-MAIL:                   : felluga@purdue.edu