Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Use selected research techniques which will allow you to develop your understanding of a range of historical contexts where cinema has converged with or emerged from art forms and technological developments.
- Understand critical methods of analysis of film texts and their connections with the other arts.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between technology, art and film across specific historical contexts.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Write in three distinct registers, a research report, an analytical essay and a comparative essay
- Organise time effectively
- Independently research appropriate resources
- Critically analyse films and academic texts
- Communicate effectively
- Compose a competent comparison of two secondary sources.
- Utilise research techniques which will allow you to develop your understanding of a range of historical contexts where cinema has converged with, or emerged from, art forms and technological developments and innovations.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Critically research and analyse film in academic writing
- Engage critically with a range of theoretical materials, films, and cultural products
- Apply this knowledge to specific moments of technological and/or aesthetic innovation
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Preparation for scheduled sessions | 60 |
Seminar | 20 |
Lecture | 20 |
Wider reading or practice | 60 |
Practical classes and workshops | 30 |
Revision | 110 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Oliver Twist. David Lean. Independent Producers. UK. 1948..
Letter From an Unknown Woman. Max Ophuls. Rampart. USA. 1948..
Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010).
Collateral. Michael Mann. Dreamworks. USA. 2004..
Strangers on a Train. Alfred Hitchcock. Warner. USA. 1951.
The Others. Alejandro Amenábar. 2001.
Duel. Steven Spielberg. USA. Universal. 1971.
Se7en. David Fincher. New Line. USA. 1995..
Her. Spike Jonze, 2013.
The Conversation. Franicis Ford Coppola. Zoetrope Studios. USA. 1974..
Mood Indigo. Michel Gondry, 2013.
Waxworks/Das Wachsfigurenkabinet. Paul Leni. Neptun-Film. Ger. 1924.
Textbooks
Nead, Lynda (2000). Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in 19th Century London. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Zielinski, Siegfried (1999). Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr’actes in History, trans. Gloria Custance. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Kittler, Friedrich (1999). Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, trans. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wultz. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Henry Jenkins (2006). Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: New York University Press.
Gitelman, Lisa (2006). Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Malin, Brenton J (2014). Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America. New York: New York University Press.
Smith, Grahame (2001). Dickens and the Dream of Cinema. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Brewster, Ben and Jacobs, Lea (1998). From Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism and Early Cinema. London: Oxford University Press.
Brooks, Peter (1995). The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama and the Mode of Excess. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Sterne, Jonathan (2012). MP3: The Meaning of a Format. Durham NC: Duke University Press.
Sconce, Jeffrey (2000). Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television. Durham NC: Duke University Press.
Friedberg, Anne (2006). The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Musser, Charles (1994). The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907. Berkeley CA: University of California Press.
Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong and Thomas Keenan, eds. (2006). New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader. New York: Routledge.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 40% |
Analytical essay | 40% |
Research Report | 20% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Resubmit assessments | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Resubmit assessments | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External