MEDIA 729

Film Evil

Please note: this is archived course information from 2025 for MEDIA 729.

Description

Explores the theme of evil in the cinema. What films can teach about evil and why it is that conceptions of evil - its nature and source as well as distinctions between natural and moral evil - have formed so much of the subject matter of cinema. The course also considers the proposition that some films may themselves be evil.

For full course information see the Digital Course Outline.

Digital Course Outlines for 2025 will be refreshed around November/December

Availability 2025

Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

Lecturer(s) Professor Laurence Simmons

Points

MEDIA 729: 30 points