Coursework Ideas

Oedipal and Freud's influence on contemporary cinema
-Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, neurologist
-Explores ideas of incest and psychological motives between family relationships
-His theories have an influence on films such as:
-Dogtooth
-We Need To Talk About Kevin
-Womb
-I could possibly talk about how dysfunctional family life become once Oedipus Complex is addressed in certain films and situations
-Foreign films - psychological drama
-Flowers in the Attic, The Cement Garden

Influence of simulacra in contemporary cinema
-Inception
-Eternal Sunshine
-Source Code
-Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland
-The Matrix
-The Truman Show
-Sucker Punch
-Simulacra means simulation.and simulations link to the idea of hyper reality and the subconscious mind
-Ideas of lucid dreaming and the significance of being able to control dreams
- Plato: Simulacrum Theories
- Jean Baudrillard: Simulacrum and simulation
-Christopher Nolan, Tim Burton, Duncan Jones, Michel Gondry

Feminist film theory - 80s to contemporary Hollywood (mainly Mulvey's female gaze)
-The Breakfast Club
-Enough
-What's Love Got To Do With It?
-500 Days of Summer
-The journey of how women have gone from submissive and objectified to strong independent women who have the upper-hand in relationships and control of their own lives
-How the oppression of women has gradually been lifted over the years