Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Liverpool Screen School
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Module Offerings
7002FILM-SEP-MTP
Aims
1. Gain a sophisticated understanding and critical engagement with the different ways in which cities are represented by whom and to what ends.
2. Evaluate the different ways in which cities are conceived and promoted in relation to their economic, cultural, and social significance
3. Critically debate why culture and creativity are vital to the understanding of cities in different historical, local, national, international and global contexts.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically engage and evaluate complex theories, principles and debates, which underpin the study of Cities, Culture and Creativity
2.
Demonstrate advanced literacy and oral communication skills, including the ability to present a rhetorically effective, coherent, well-supported, and sustained argument.
3.
Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding and critical awareness of how cities are represented in film and apply relevant aesthetic and theoretical constructs to specific case studies.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Screening the City focuses on Liverpool as a filmmaker’s city, exploring the industrial, institutional and creative opportunities that it offers (Liverpool Film Office, Tate Gallery, FACT). From this initial local basis the module approach is expanded to consider the screening of international cities. The tradition of the ‘City Symphony’ film is examined and further case study cities examined will include Glasgow, Dublin, New Orleans and Shanghai. The topics of film tourism (including Dark Tourism), architecture and cinema, and ecology are also explored in this module.
Module Overview:
Screening the City focuses on Liverpool as a filmmaker’s city, exploring the industrial, institutional and creative opportunities that it offers (Liverpool Film Office, Tate Gallery, FACT). It also examines the tradition of the ‘City Symphony’ films, as well as a number of case studies deriving from World Cinema (Paris, London, Belfast, New York, New Orleans, Athens, Mumbai, Tokyo). The topics of film tourism (including Dark Tourism), architecture and cinema, and ecology (green spaces in the city) are also explored in this module.
Screening the City focuses on Liverpool as a filmmaker’s city, exploring the industrial, institutional and creative opportunities that it offers (Liverpool Film Office, Tate Gallery, FACT). It also examines the tradition of the ‘City Symphony’ films, as well as a number of case studies deriving from World Cinema (Paris, London, Belfast, New York, New Orleans, Athens, Mumbai, Tokyo). The topics of film tourism (including Dark Tourism), architecture and cinema, and ecology (green spaces in the city) are also explored in this module.
Additional Information:Screenings and excerpts shown on the module relating to Liverpool as a city will include Letter to Brezhnev (Chris Bernard, 1985) and The 51st State (Ronny Yu, 2001). Screenings and excerpts shown on the module relating to International cities will include The Princess and the Frog (Ron Clements and John Musker, 2009), When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Spike Lee, 2006-7), Berlin: Symphony of A Great City (Walter Ruttman, 1927), A Film About Nice (Keith Marley & Geoffrey Cox, 2010).
Students are able to choose whether they submit a portfolio of written work, practical work (with reflective commentaries) or a combination of both practical and written work.