SCRN1200
10 units
1000 level
Course handbook
Description
This course introduces the connected areas of film and television studies, examining core components of cinematic and televisual forms. We explore fundamental principles of these historically dominant, ongoing audio-visual media or artforms and influential scholarship devoted to them, taking in theoretical, formal, aesthetic, industrial, cultural, technical, political, and historical perspectives.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Online
- Semester 1 - 2024
Callaghan
- Semester 2 - 2024
Newcastle City Precinct
- Semester 2 - 2024
Replacing course(s)
This course replaces the following course(s): FMCS1200. Students who have successfully completed FMCS1200 are not eligible to enrol in SCRN1200.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Define core historical and contemporary concepts of film and televisual scholarship.
2. Apply these fundamental concepts to analysis of diverse films and television programmes from around the world.
3. Interpret films and television programmes using different theoretical lenses at a foundational level.
4. Exercise foundational level written and research skills.
Content
Topics may include:
- Cinema and television histories
- Narrative, genre and ideology
- Mise en scene and aesthetic style
- Classical, modernist, and post-classical forms
- Televisual form and culture
- Audio-visual realism
- National and world cinema
- Global animation
- Film and television authorship
- Screen representations of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity
- Hollywood and political economy
- The effects of digital technology on film and television
Requisite
This course replaces FMCS1200. If you have successfully completed FMCS1200 you cannot enrol in this course.
Assessment items
Journal: Journal entries (1 batch worth per module)
Essay: Research Essay
Contact hours
Semester 1 - 2024 - Online
Lecture-1
- Online 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Workshop-1
- Online 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Semester 2 - 2024 - Callaghan
Film Screening-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Lecture-1
- Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Workshop-1
- Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Semester 2 - 2024 - Newcastle City Precinct
Film Screening-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Lecture-1
- Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Workshop-1
- Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Course outline
- SCRN1200 - Semester 1, 2024 (Online) (PDF, 277.8 KB)
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