| Module Identifier | TF10220 | ||
| Module Title | STUDYING FILM | ||
| Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
| Co-ordinator | Professor Martin J Barker | ||
| Semester | Semester 2 (Taught over 2 semesters) | ||
| Other staff | Dr Ernest Mathijs, Mr Jamie Medhurst, Dr Mikel Koven | ||
| Assessment | Semester Exam | 2 Hours | 50% |
| Semester Assessment | one essay of 2000 words 25%, and one textual analysis of 2000 words 25% Deadline for Assignment 1: Friday 22nd November 2002 Deadline for Assignment 2: Friday 9th May 2003 | 50% | |
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. The economic significance of the film industry.
3. Processes of marketing and distribution and their impact on the meaning of films.
4. Issues of genre.
5. Debates around stardom.
6. The module will introduce methods of close analysis of elements of film form (for instance, the relations of sound and image, editing practices, mise-en-scene, and narrative structure).
7. It will also explore related concepts of representation.