Screen studies

Screen studies involves historical, textual and critical approaches to film and television, and related new screen technologies. The Film and television studies major covers Asian and European national cinemas, a range of directors and genres, early and contemporary cinema, film stardom and popular television genres.

Emphasis is given to a variety of historical, critical and theoretical methods of analysis appropriate to the study of the moving image, including formal, institutional, reception based and cultural studies approaches, consideration of issues relating to the intersection of ideology and culture, the representation of gender, race and class, and questions concerning the relations between film and television and new technologies.

Availability

Film and television studies is listed in the Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences at Malaysia as a minor.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the minor, students will be able to:

1. identify and evaluate screen theory and scholarly debates in relation to contemporary and historical screen media examples and methods (review/evaluation of critical debate or literature review)

2. critically reflect on and synthesise screen theoretical approaches and communicate this in written, oral and audio-visual form (research essay and presentations)

3. understand and apply a range of theoretical approaches to contemporary and historical narrative and non-narrative forms of film, television and online screen critically engage with contemporary and historical practices of cinema and television criticism