Screening the Brave New World: film and television in post-war Britain

Wedi cwblhau'r modiwl dylai'r myfyrwyr fedru:

1. Demonstrate, through work in seminars and in written work, an advanced understanding of the history and development of television as a mass medium
2. Write a coherent, critically-informed essay using correct referencing style
3. Engage with primary historical sources on a critical level
4. Demonstrate a critical awareness of ways in which post-war film and television resonated with political, social, and cultural changes in Britain

This module will consider the ways in which film and television in Britain reflected the changing nature of society after the Second World War. It will explore how television gradually became a popular domestic medium during this period and how television formats with which we are familiar today developed during this period. The political, social, and cultural contexts of film and television will also be studied and so we will consider how the small screen and the large screen resonated with (and reflected) changes in British society after 1945.

The aim of this module is to allow students to engage critically with debates around the role of film and television in British society in the period after the Second World War.

Teaching sessions will include the following:

Britain after the Second World War
Event television (1948 Olympics, 1953 Coronation)
Breaking the monopoly: ITV
Ealing Comedies
Free Cinema
Post-war documentary
Television and the Cold War
Sex, Class and Realism
Screening the nations
The post-war film and television audience

Mae'r modiwl hwn yn cydymffurfio a FfCChC Lefel 6