LT121-4-FY-CO:
Approaches to Film and Media
2015/16
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 4
Current
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02 August 2002
Requisites for this module
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LT122
BA T7P3 American Studies (United States) with Film,
BA T7W6 American Studies (United States) with Film (Including Year Abroad),
BA PW38 Film and Creative Writing,
BA PWH8 Film and Creative Writing (Including Year Abroad),
BA P303 Film Studies (Including Year Abroad),
BA W620 Film Studies,
BA PV33 Film Studies and Art History (Including Year Abroad),
BA VW36 Film Studies and Art History,
BA PQ32 Film Studies and Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA QW26 Film Studies and Literature,
BA V1W6 History with Film Studies,
BA V1WP History with Film Studies (Including Year Abroad),
BA LP33 Media and Digital Culture,
BA LP34 Media and Digital Culture (including Placement Year),
BA P300 Media and Digital Culture (Including Foundation Year),
BA PL33 Media and Digital Culture (including Year Abroad)
This is an extensive survey of cinema which foregrounds its historical and international diversity. The module is designed to engage with three key areas: cinema as an aesthetic or artistic medium; cinema history and its social contexts, ranging from the late-nineteenth to the twentieth-first centuries; and film and media theory, looking at cinematic media (from celluloid to digital) both as cultural productions and as texts received, and consumed, by audiences. The module will cover a range of cinema history, from nineteenth-century photographic technology and early cinema projection, to the rise of synch sound, and finally to more recent trends in genre and production innovation. In the first term, central concepts of cinematic form will be explored, such as editing, montage, mise-en-scene, sound, lighting, and camera movement. The second term will delve more deeply into theoretical issues, including concepts of genre, auteur, technology, and postmodernity. The module features an extensive lecture programme over the year, delivered by Film Studies staff. Every student should attend the weekly lecture/screening, and seminar.
Background in writing for the humanities and/or media studies is recommended. Students registered for any film studies degree, for which LT121 is a pre-requisite, have priority in applying for the places available on this course.
Module Supervisor's and Tutors' Research into Subject Area
Lecturers on LT121 are leading international writers and researchers in film and media studies. One of the key texts on the module, Film Analysis: A Norton Reader (expanded edition 2013), is used worldwide as a film teaching and research resource; edited by the LT121 module supervisor, it contains useful essays written by lecturers who contribute to the module. These lecturers have themselves published widely in areas such as early cinema, American film, Russian cinema, World Cinema, and independent cinema; and it is these areas, among others, that LT121 students will explore in their own research essays.
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online course materials for LT121-4-FY
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies online course materials in the Online Resource Bank
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies website
Weekly 1-hour lecture and 1-hour class as well as a weekly screening
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Essay 1 (Autumn) |
|
45% |
| Coursework |
Essay 2 (Spring) |
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45% |
| Practical |
Class Participation and Film Diaries |
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10% |
| Exam |
Main exam: 180 minutes during Summer (Main Period)
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Additional coursework information
Essay 1 will have 2000-2500 words; Essay 2 will have 2000-2500 words
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Various
LiFTS Taught Team - email liftstt@essex.ac.uk.
Telephone 01206 872626
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Dr Keith Brandon Williams
The University of Dundee
Senior Lecturer
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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