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FILM4113: What is Cinema Studies?
Many scholars take Andre Bazin's four-volume work--Qu'est-ce que le cinema?--as the moment of inauguration for the critical project of film studies. Echoing Bazin's famous question, this seminar investigates what it means to take cinema as a scholarly object. Covering materials from early cinema to post-cinema, this seminar is organised around a series of mutually informing concepts that have structured film studies scholarship: disciplinarity, temporality, realism, indexicality, sound, spectatorship and digitality.
| Code | FILM4113 |
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| Academic unit | Film Studies |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. analyze and critically interrogate the dominant theoretical and methodological paradigms brought to bear on the discipline of film studies
- LO2. engage in depth with the work of leading contemporary modern and classical filmmakers
- LO3. assess the current terrain of film studies, drawing on formalist, aesthetic, and cultural approaches to the study of cinema
- LO4. provide the conceptual and methodological foundation for further research practice.
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