FMCS2301
European Cinema in Context: Transforming Images, States, Histories
10 Units
Not available in 2014
Previously offered in 2013
This course develops students' knowledge of European cinema as emanating from and playing out within particular social, cultural and political contexts, as well as more 'global' impacts and accounts, and the critical and theoretical debates pertaining thereto.
| Objectives | The course investigates the changing nature of European filmmaking and its attendant discourses. It assists students in developing skills that will enable them to: 1. Locate European cinema within significant historical, social, political, and cultural contexts. 2. Apply different theories of representation, textual analysis and spectatorship to the analyses of particular films. 3. Differentiate between major examples of filmmaking in Europe when it comes to specific contexts and aesthetic modes, while also stressing the cross-cultural nature of European filmmaking and discourse. 4. Evaluate influential writings of different critics and film theorists as directly related to each week's primary film and topic. 5. Engage with and contribute to broad critical debates and scholarship by making use of relevant secondary films & literature. |
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| Content | Topics may include the following: a) the study of representative and influential films from a number of European countries; b) films addressed as complex technological, industrial, aesthetic and culturally important representational systems; c) theoretical, analytical and historically-informed approaches particularly applicable to European cinema and emerging in response thereto; d) the changing interface between national, regional and global cinemas in the context of European nation-states & the EU; e) a consideration of long-held discourses and debates around the European film director as paradigmatic 'art cinema' author; and f) the developed study of important European film 'movements' such as the French new wave, Italian Neorealism, New West-)German cinema, Dogme 95, etc. |
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| Replacing Course(s) | FILM3140 European Cinema in Context: Transforming Images, States, Histories, and FILM3004 Contemporary European Cinema | ||||
| Transition | Students are not permitted to enrol in FMCS2301 European Cinema in Context: Transforming Images, States, Histories if they have previously completed FILM3140 European Cinema in Context: Transforming Images, States, Histories or FILM3004 Contemporary European Cinema. | ||||
| Industrial Experience | 0 | ||||
| Assumed Knowledge | 20 units in FILM at 1000 level. | ||||
| Modes of Delivery | Internal Mode | ||||
| Teaching Methods | Laboratory
Seminar |
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| Contact Hours | Seminar: for 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term Laboratory: for 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term |