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A beginners' course introducing a range of concepts for those with an interest in cinema but with little/no experience of film analysis or critical film theory. Classes will be focused around 'Memento', 'You Were Never Really Here' and 'Mulholland Drive'.
Starting with famous American trends in the crime film, this course will examine many of the classic and recent examples in International Crime Cinema, tracing historical and ongoing connections between different national movie traditions
Medieval art glitters and enthrals. Medieval architecture elicits wonder and awe. In this introductory course you will learn about its breadth and diversity, from great cathedrals and imposing castles to sacred icons and subversive marginalia.
This lecture will explore Wuthering Heights, examining Heathcliff’s origins and moral ambiguity, the novel’s complex structure and doublings, its ambiguous ending, and the enduring legacy of the Brontës nearly 180 years on.
Join us for this introduction to the art historian’s key skills, whether you wish to enhance your enjoyment of art or equip yourself for further study.
The 'novel' genre was given its name because it was new and innovative. But what was novel about novels? How did they come about? And why were they immediately so popular? This course considers how and why the novel began.
Explore the piano repertoire in a lively mixture of talks and workshops, with all students having regular opportunities to play. This term focusses on interpretation but technical issues will be discussed in the workshops. Open to players of all levels.
This course provides an historical introduction to the development of folklore studies in Britain. It will review historical conceptions and approaches to folklore from the seventeenth-century antiquarians to the present.
This course explores American art from the late nineteenth century to the postwar era, examining how artists responded to urbanisation, mass media, European modernism, consumer culture, and America’s changing place in the world.
An introduction to British art of the postwar era, from Neo-Romanticism to 'Kitchen Sink' realism and the emergence of Pop Art.
Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' have enjoyed a long and continuing life. Looking at the collection in its late fourteenth-century context and then at its afterlife and continuing significance, we can explore readership, reinterpretation and regeneration.
Discover approaches to curating and contemporary art through a series of talks and practical workshops. With discussion and object-analysis at the centre, you will consider, what it means to be a curator today.
