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FILM2002: Film Genre, Genre Film
2024 unit information
This unit examines the development of film genre in the context of technological and industrial change in the making, delivery and consumption of audiovisual media. The unit considers changing aesthetic, commercial, ideological and social functions of genre in terms of the needs of film industries, filmmakers and audiences. Each year two genre case studies will be covered in depth, such as the action film, the art film, the coming-of-age film, film noir, the gangster film, horror, melodrama, the musical, science fiction, the thriller, or the western.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Film Studies
| Code | FILM2002 |
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| Academic unit | Film Studies |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 1000 level in Film Studies |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. LO1: Demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of the historical development of film genres, including their social, commercial, ideological and political functions.
- LO2. LO2: Analyse the function of genre as a set of semiotic systems, including narrative and visual form.
- LO3. L03: Engage with current scholarly approaches to genre, including theories of genre emergence and change, transnational genre forms, genre fluidity, and genre hybridization.
- LO4. LO4: Demonstrate sophisticated knowledge of two genres and their application in social, cultural, political and commercial contexts.
- LO5. LO5: Produce sophisticated analyses of cinema in written and audio-visual media form.
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