AMU1223 · Film, television and screen studies: Approaches

Overview

The unit uses key critical approaches developed within Film, Television and Screen Studies to better understanding the aesthetic and political dimensions of moving image texts. While Film, Television and Screen Studies: Forms looks inwards, exploring moving images through reference to their internal formal properties and techniques, Film, Television and Screen Studies: Approaches, looks outwards, placing texts within their broader contexts: films, television shows and other types of screenbased media (such as online content) are looked at in relation to key theories, such as authorship, genre and ideology, and contexts such as history, society and politics. These topics are explored through weekly screenings, which are examined in relation to a variety of critical approaches and draw on examples from diverse film and television genres, historical periods and national contexts.

Areas of study: Film, television and screen studies

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Explain the purpose and value of key film, television and screen studies approaches;
2. Apply film, television and screen studies approaches to the analysis of selected moving image texts;
3. Evaluate a range of critical approaches used within film, television and screen studies;
4. Analyse the role played by key social, historical and political contexts in shaping the meanings of films and/or television shows;
5. Plan and conduct written work that draws on film, television and screen studies approaches to critically analyse moving images.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.