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Cinema History

Undergraduate | GRF-CMM10 | 2021

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Put the history of cinema up in lights and analyse the results. View generic, technological and gendered perspectives. Note the building blocks that go into narrative construction. Think about film in terms of political and social concerns.

Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Entry requirements
No ATAR needed,
No prior study
Duration
13 weeks

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Cinema History

About this subject

  • At the completion of this study period students will:

    1. be familiar with the main explanatory frameworks offered in screen studies: biography, industrial or economic history, aesthetics, technology, audiences, gender and sexuality.
    2. have acquired the conceptual tools and appropriate vocabulary to undertake screen research 
    3. be able to analyse individual and groups of screen texts in terms of their relationship to wider social, technical, economic and political issues 
    4. be able to recognise the different kinds of arguments made by screen theorists and scholars concerning the relationship between film and wider social, cultural and technical issues 
    5. have acquired, in addition to these discipline specific skills, better generic skills, including an understanding of how to apply ideas, the ability to analyse, to think critically, and to write clearly
    6. as well as teaching the degree-specific skills above, our aim is to encourage students to develop written communication skills, critical judgement, informed independence of thought, and the ability to conduct research.

Entry requirements

No entry requirements

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
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