ATS3299 · Screen and the body

Overview

This unit focuses on the relationships between the screen and the body and mind. It shows how vision, hearing and touch, as well as other affective and embodied responses, contribute to our engagement with the moving image. The unit revises a range of critical perspectives in screen studies which may include scholarship on emotions, affect, cognitive comprehension, memory and ethical reasoning. Drawing on approaches from genre theory, performance studies and gender studies the unit also considers the diverse ways bodies are presented on screen, and the artistic, cultural and political consequences this creates. These positions are illustrated by a variety of screen texts, which demonstrate the role of the body on and in front of the screen. By keeping bodies and the senses at the centre of its inquiry, the unit demonstrates how the screen image moves viewers and to what effects.

Areas of study: Film 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. Identify and summarise a number of critical positions explaining the role of the body in engaging with the moving image;
2. Apply these positions to a variety of screen texts;
3. Interpret and analyse how representations of the body on screen give rise to specific effects;
4. Research, develop and communicate a critical argument on the role of the body for screen texts.

Workload

This unit requires an equivalent of 144 contact hours including assessment tasks and in-country program activities. This is a guided study tour, however you will be required to attend a compulsory on-campus session prior to departure.

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