Module Identifier | TF10220 | |||||||||||
Module Title | STUDYING FILM | |||||||||||
Academic Year | 2005/2006 | |||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Miss Kate E Egan | |||||||||||
Semester | Semester 2 (Taught over 2 semesters) | |||||||||||
Other staff | Dr Ernest Mathijs, Dr Jamie Sexton, Dr Kevin J Donnelly, Professor Martin J Barker, Dr Mikel Koven | |||||||||||
Assessment |
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1. Examine a range of different films, and explore the ways in which individual film form and content may be related to wider contexts.
2. Reflect critically on the relevance of the study of film to personal, social and historical understandings.
3. Understand and deploy some key methods of analysis of films.
4. Draw critically uopn a range of reading from the field of film studies, both for the knowledge of films it offers, and for its understanding of the purposes and importance of film studies.
1. Moral debates about films.
2. Academic vs other kinds of film analysis
3. Film theory, and film art and film aesthetics
4. Issues of narrative
5. Filmic story-worlds
6. The concept of representation and its importance in understanding film.
7. National cinemas
8. This module will introduce methods of close analysis of elements of film form (for instance, cinematography, the relations of sound and image, editing practices, mise-en-scene, and narrative structure).
This module is at CQFW Level 4