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EUST2020: Screening Europe: After 1989
2025 unit information
Cinema was born on the eve of a century of conflict in Europe. Celebrated as an avant-garde art form, it was also used for political propaganda and popular entertainment during the 20th century. Most recently European cinema has taken on another function, contributing to the creation of modern European identities through critical self-representation. This unit focuses on a range of recent films in order to study social and cultural change in the new Europe of the past two decades.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | European Studies |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 1000 level in European Studies or History or English or Arabic Languages and Cultures or French and Francophone Studies or Germanic Studies or Modern Hebrew or Italian Studies or Modern Greek Studies or Spanish and Latin American Studies or International Comparative Literature and Translation Studies |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate detailed knowledge of a range of contemporary European films in terms of current socio-political and cultural issues in accurate
- LO2. critically analyse and interpret primary and secondary sources in relation to contemporary European film and its related fields in clear, accurate and succinct language
- LO3. construct arguments and hypotheses within the framework of specific research questions in relation to the representation of aspects of contemporary Europe in film
- LO4. undertake research in relation to aspects of contemporary European self-representation in film and associated fields
- LO5. apply relevant disciplinary and methodological approaches to the study and evaluation of aspects of contemporary European film and related fields
- LO6. make informed contributions to group discussions of Balkan issues and provide critical and/or analytical reflections on group discussions and assignments
- LO7. present succinct, clearly formulated, articulate and informed arguments for group discussion, based on ethical scholarly research and presented in a spirit of cultural and inter-cultural sensitivity, tolerance and inclusiveness.
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