Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- 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.
- Communicate effectively
- Critically analyse films and academic texts
- Compose a competent comparison of two secondary sources.
- Independently research appropriate resources
- Write in three distinct registers, a research report, an analytical essay and a comparative essay
- Organise time effectively
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
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Understand critical methods of analysis of film texts and their connections with the other arts.
- 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.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between technology, art and film across specific historical contexts.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Wider reading or practice | 60 |
Practical classes and workshops | 30 |
Lecture | 20 |
Seminar | 20 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 60 |
Revision | 110 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
The Conversation. Franicis Ford Coppola. Zoetrope Studios. USA. 1974..
Oliver Twist. David Lean. Independent Producers. UK. 1948..
Waxworks/Das Wachsfigurenkabinet. Paul Leni. Neptun-Film. Ger. 1924.
Her. Spike Jonze, 2013.
Collateral. Michael Mann. Dreamworks. USA. 2004..
The Others. Alejandro Amenábar. 2001.
Duel. Steven Spielberg. USA. Universal. 1971.
Letter From an Unknown Woman. Max Ophuls. Rampart. USA. 1948..
Strangers on a Train. Alfred Hitchcock. Warner. USA. 1951.
Se7en. David Fincher. New Line. USA. 1995..
Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010).
Mood Indigo. Michel Gondry, 2013.
Textbooks
Henry Jenkins (2006). Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: New York University Press.
Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong and Thomas Keenan, eds. (2006). New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader. New York: Routledge.
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.
Kittler, Friedrich (1999). Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, trans. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wultz. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Zielinski, Siegfried (1999). Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr’actes in History, trans. Gloria Custance. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Sterne, Jonathan (2012). MP3: The Meaning of a Format. Durham NC: Duke University Press.
Musser, Charles (1994). The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907. Berkeley CA: University of California Press.
Smith, Grahame (2001). Dickens and the Dream of Cinema. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Friedberg, Anne (2006). The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Brooks, Peter (1995). The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama and the Mode of Excess. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Brewster, Ben and Jacobs, Lea (1998). From Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism and Early Cinema. London: Oxford University Press.
Nead, Lynda (2000). Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in 19th Century London. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Sconce, Jeffrey (2000). Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television. Durham NC: Duke University Press.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Analytical essay | 40% |
Research Report | 20% |
Essay | 40% |
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