Welsh film

Timetable

Module aim (aims)

Transfer of knowledge

- providing key information on the creators, works, genres and styles of film in Welsh cinematography.

- understanding the specifics of Welsh cinema in a historical, social and cultural context.

- understanding the specifics of Welsh cinema in the context of international cinema

- analysis of the most important themes in Welsh film and films about Wales

- developing and shaping oral and written statements about Welsh cinema

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

English language at least B2 level.

Syllabus

Week 1: The Origins of Welsh Film: Welsh Silent Cinema.

 

Week 2: Welsh film in the 1930s and 1940s.        

 

Week 3: Film adaptations: How Green was my Valley and mining-themed films.    

 

Week 4: Ealing Studios: Wales through the eyes of English directors.        

 

Week 5: Ealing Studios: Wales through the eyes of English directors.                    

 

Week 6: Welsh film in the 60's and 70's. 

 

Week 7: The influence of Welsh-language television S4C on the development of film and animation in Wales.          

 

Week 8: The influence of Welsh-language television S4C on the development of film and animation in Wales.          

 

Week 9: British versus Welsh in Welsh film of the 1980s and 1990s.         

 

Week 10: British versus Welsh in Welsh film of the 1980s and 1990s.       

 

Week 11: Traditions and Transformations: Welsh Film in the Cool Cymru Period

 

Week 12: Contemporary Welsh Film       

 

Week 13: Contemporary Welsh Film       

 

Week 14: Dylan Thomas on film 

 

Week 15: Dylan Thomas on film 

Reading list

Berry, David. 1994. Wales and the Cinema. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Blandford, Steve (ed.). 2000. Wales on Screen. Bridgend: Seren Books.

McLoone, Martin. 2001. “Challenging colonial traditions. British Cinema in the Celtic Fringe”, Cineaste XXVI 4, pp. 51-54

Miskell, Peter. 2006. A Social history of the cinema in Wales, 1918-1951. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Woodward, Kate. 2006. “Traditions and transformations: Film in Wales during the 1990s”, North American Journal of Welsh Studies 6(1), pp. 48-64.

Woodward, Kate. 2012. “The Desert and the dream: Film in Wales since 2000”, Journal of British Cinema and Television 9.3, pp. 419-435