SCRN2400
10 units
2000 level
Course handbook
Description
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.
Availability
Not currently offered.
Replacing course(s)
This course replaces the following course(s): FMCS2301. Students who have successfully completed FMCS2301 are not eligible to enrol in SCRN2400.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able 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.
Content
Topics may include the following:
- The study of representative and influential films from a number of European countries;
- Films addressed as complex technological, industrial, aesthetic and culturally important representational systems;
- Theoretical, analytical and historically-informed approaches particularly applicable to European cinema and emerging in response thereto;
- The changing interface between national, regional and global cinemas in the context of European nation-states & the EU;
- A consideration of long-held discourses and debates around the European film director as paradigmatic 'art cinema' author;
- The developed study of important European film 'movements' such as the French new wave, Italian Neorealism, New West-German cinema, Dogme 95, etc.
Requisite
This course replaces FMCS2301. If you have successfully completed FMCS2301 you cannot enrol in this course.
Assumed knowledge
20 units in Screen and Culture Studies at 1000 level.
Assessment items
Written Assignment: Film Analysis
Essay: Major Essay
Journal: Weekly Journal
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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