CINE225

Strange Bodies: Transformations, contagions, and hybridity on screen

15 points

Not offered 2026, offered in 2025

For further information see Humanities

Description

This course considers the creative, provocative ways that cinema might explore the limits and capacities of bodies, both real and imagined, and in doing so offer a lens through which we can better understand our precarious place in this world. It analyses how filmmakers explore contagion, transformation and hybridity as forms of metaphor and allegory, as well as aesthetic strategies. It also investigates how questions of embodiment, subjectivity, identity and mortality are explored through different genres and national cinemas.

Prerequisites

Any 15 points at 100 level from CINE, or
any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA or Schedule V of the BDigiScreenHons.