Undergraduate - UnitATS3448 - Screen theories and techniques

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	School of Applied Media and Social Sciences, Gippsland
Offered	Berwick Second semester 2013 (Day) Gippsland Second semester 2013 (Day) Gippsland Second semester 2013 (Off-campus) Sunway Second semester 2013 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Simon Cooper

Notes

Previously coded COM3408

Synopsis

An introduction to the study of film and television/video as mediums of fictional and documentary narrative. Major developments in the history of cinema. Films will be analysed formally in terms of narrative, editing, mise en scene, shots, lighting and sound, and stylistically in terms of genre and authorship. Different theoretical approaches to screen studies including aestheticism, discourse analysis and semiotics.

Outcomes

Students successfully completing this unit will have demonstrated an ability to analyse and evaluate screen representations, on film and television, in terms of: stylistic elements (mise-en-scene, shots, editing, lighting and sound); narrative form; aspects of screen theory: genre, authorship. gender, psychoanalysis; historical and social contexts of production and reception. They will also have an extended understanding of a range of critical and theoretical approaches to screen studies and their place in the wider field of cultural studies.

Assessment

Written work: 50%
Exam: 50%

Chief examiner(s)

Simon Cooper

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Writing
Communications

Prerequisites

ATS1277 and ATS1278 or equivalent

Prohibitions

ATS2448, COM2408, COM3408, GSC2408, GSC3408