Prerequisites for Module
None in addition to SCQF 10 entry requirements or equivalent.
Corequisite Modules
None.
Precluded Modules
None.
Aims of Module
To develop a critical understanding of visual, narrative and ideological structures in cinema.
Learning Outcomes for Module
On completion of this module, students are expected to be able to:
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Analyse critically the public and ideological functions of cinematic form
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Examine critically key theoretical frameworks relevant to cinema and film
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Evaluate the changing context of audience positioning and reception
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Identify and evaluate critically key filmmakers and movements.
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Indicative Module Content
Key theoretical frameworks, filmmakers and movements; motion picture industry; audience reception and fan culture; cinematic signs and meaning; status of early cinema; developments and departures in film as classic realist text; social cinema; re-imagining history and national identity; representation of class, race, gender and sexuality; censorship and film board classifications.
| Indicative Student Workload
Contact Hours
| Full Time | Assessment
| 20 | Lectures
| 12 | Tutorials / Screenings
| 24 |
Directed Study
| | Directed Reading
| 42 |
Private Study
| | Private Reading/Viewing
| 52 |
Mode of Delivery
Lectures, tutorials, directed reading and screenings.
Assessment Plan
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Learning Outcomes Assessed
| | Component 1 | 1,2,3,4
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100% coursework assignment.
Indicative Bibliography
| 1. | BORDWELL, D., 2005. The Cinema of Eisenstein. New York: Routledge.
| | 2. | DYER, R. 1997. White: essays on race and culture. London: Routledge.
| | 3. | DYER, R., 2004. Heavenly bodies: film stars and society. 2nd ed. London: Routledge.
| | 4. | MAYNE, J., 1993. Cinema and spectatorship. London: Routledge.
| | 5. | NEALE, S. (ed), 2000. Genre and contemporary Hollywood. London: Routledge.
| | 6. | PHILLIPS, W. H., 2009. Film: an introduction. 4th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
| | 7. | STURKEN, M. & CARTWRIGHT, L., 2009. Practices of looking. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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