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Barry Wood<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like many people of my generation, cinema and \u2018going to the pictures\u2019 was and has continued to be a constant feature of life. The course will not be only a nostalgia-trip\u2014although I don\u2019t rule that out entirely\u2014but an attempt to consider the role of films in personal and cultural life.\u00a0 We will examine the way a number of UK and US poets have responded to \u2018the cinema experience\u2019 on different levels and for various purposes. The poets discussed will range from Robert Frost and Sharon Olds to Roger McGough, from Rudyard Kipling and Frank O\u2019Hara to Carol Ann Duffy; from silent movies to \u2018the after-life of movies\u2019 on TV. The style of the poems will be varied\u2014villanelle to Whitmanic rhapsody; the modes diverse\u2014comic, satiric, tragic; and the themes a \u2018mutiplex\u2019 of tributes and elegies for the stars, celebrations and laments for the great picture palaces and reflections on the finance and politics of film production. Cinema as art and entertainment and the impact of cinema on our ways of seeing the world will also be touched on. There\u2019s plenty to go on and a wealth of poetry to enjoy.<\/p>\n

Recommended reading:
\n<\/strong>Philip French & Ken Wlaschin (eds) The Faber Book of Movie Verse
\n<\/em>Leslie Halliwell Seats in All Parts
\n<\/em>David Thomson The Big Screen
\n<\/em>Roger Ebert Awake in the Dark<\/em><\/p>\n

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The course will be delivered by email exchange with weekly discussion notes distributed \u00a0on Thursdays, 10.30 – 11.30am. I will also post a booklet of materials, including a selection of movie-poems for detailed discussion, some critical comments and where possible movie stills.<\/div>\n
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Day<\/strong>: Thursday\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Time<\/strong>: 10.30am for distribution of weekly discussion notes.
\n5 weeks from 6 May to 10 June<\/strong>
\nMid-term break 27 May<\/p>\n

Online platform<\/strong>:
\nThe course will be delivered by email exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Price<\/strong><\/td>\nConcessions<\/strong><\/td>\nMinimum No.<\/strong><\/td>\nMaximum No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a340<\/td>\nn\/a<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Please send your\u00a0MANCENT booking form<\/a>\u00a0with accompanying payment to the address below. If you prefer to pay through BACS, please contact the lecturer for further particulars.<\/p>\n

Contact details:<\/strong>
\nBarry Wood, 12 St. Brannock\u2019s Road,
\nChorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester M21 0UP
\nemail:\u00a0<\/strong>barrywood42@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barry Wood Like many people of my generation, cinema and \u2018going to the pictures\u2019 was and has continued to be a constant feature of life. The course will not be only a nostalgia-trip\u2014although I don\u2019t rule that out entirely\u2014but an attempt to consider the role of films in personal and cultural life.\u00a0 We will examine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3890,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3886","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3891,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3886\/revisions\/3891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}