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| Unit name |
Screen Forms and Analysis |
| Unit code |
DRAMM3007 |
| Credit points |
20 |
| Level of study |
M/7
|
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
|
| Unit director |
Dr. Maingard |
| Open unit status |
Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None
|
| Co-requisites |
None
|
| School/department |
Department of Film and Television |
| Faculty |
Faculty of Arts |
Description including Unit Aims
This unit seeks to examine a range of types of film and screen media. It combines discussion of key concepts with in-class screening and analysis, encouraging a flexible and alert approach to the close analysis of screen texts. The students will also be familiariased with a variety of styles and conventions ranging from mainstream cinema to the avant-garde, encouraging the comparative narrative, mise-en-scene, genre, editing and sound as applied to a number of case studies.
Aims:
- To investigate critically the narrative strategies used in a broad range of films and/or other media and how these construct meanings and pleasures
- To develop the application of key concepts in the close textual analysis of screen media forms
- To explore a range of functions and uses of film form
- To see the ways in which different stylistic forms generate contrasting meanings and pleasures
- To demonstrate the practice of close textual analysis.
Intended Learning Outcomes
- To be able to apply established terms and approaches to the textual analysis of screen media
- To articulate and interrogate the potential implications of different stylistic formations
- To distinguish between different approaches to stylistic analysis
- To be able to present a clear and well-structured argument evidenced through close textual analysis
- To understand the implications of different styles, genres and forms for close textual analysis.
Teaching Information
Lectures, seminars, screenings and workshops.
Assessment Information
Short essay (1,000 words) 20%; plus long essay (4,000 words) 80%
Reading and References
- Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson, Film Art, 8th ed. (Boston: McGraw Hill, 2008).
- Perkins, Victor, Film as Film (DaCapo Press, 1993).
- Kolker, Robert Phillip, Film, Form and Culture, 3rd ed. (Boston: McGraw Hill, 2005).
- Cubitt, Sean, The Cinema Effect (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005).
- Geiger, Jeffrey and R. L. Rutsky (eds.) Film Analysis: A Norton Reader (W. W. Norton, 2005).
- Lury, Karen, Interpreting Television (Hodder Arnold, 2005)
