units

AMU1305

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 22 December 2024
Monash University

Undergraduate - Unit

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelUndergraduate
FacultyFaculty of Arts
Organisational UnitSchool of Arts and Social Sciences, Malaysia
OfferedMalaysia First semester 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)Dr Jonathan Driskell

Synopsis

Film Studies: Forms and Approaches gives students an overview of the discipline of Film studies. Weeks are devoted to the close analysis of film, with topics focusing on key formal and stylistic elements, such as narrative, mise-en-scne, camerawork, editing and sound. In addition, students will become familiar with some of the main theoretical approaches used in Film Studies, such as authorship, genre and national cinema. Throughout the unit emphasis is placed on situating films within their broader social, political and historical contexts, and in doing so students will engage with the ideological significance of cinema - how films offer particular, politically-loaded visions of life. Exploration of these issues is supported through weekly screenings, with a variety of films being shown, spanning a range of historical periods, genres and countries.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

  1. Analyse films with particular attention to their main formal and stylistic features;
  2. Identify techniques used to create meaning in films;
  3. Apply theories from Film Studies to facilitate the analysis of films;
  4. Evaluate critical debates on cinema and on particular films;
  5. Plan and conduct written work on how meaning is created in cinema.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Jonathan Driskell

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

Film and screen studies

Prohibitions

ATS1305