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Humanities and Social Science

Learning Methods

Lecture

Seminar

Module Offerings

6105MEDCUL-SEP-MTP

Aims

1. To offer students the opportunity to develop critical, analytical and evaluative skills appropriate to the textual study of screen media. 2. To identify and critically evaluate the discursive roots of given examples drawn from screen media. 3. To offer students the opportunity to develop a critical understanding of screen media narratives and their historical contexts.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Critically evaluate the relationship between popular narrative media and the cultures within which they were produced and consumed.
2.
Critically evaluate and identify an appropriate analytical framework for a self-selected screen media text.
3.
Offer a theoretically informed analysis of a self-selected screen media text.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:Is there a language of Film, TV and Videogames? Pure Cinema; The Classic Realist Text; Narrative Structure and Myth; TV and Flexi-Narrative; TVIII and the Post-Network Era; The Cinematic Gaze; The Wii and Casual Gaming; The Power of the Edit; First-person shooters and the apparatus of the videogame.
Module Overview:
This module offers you the opportunity to engage in theoretically informed analyses of a range of screen media, including: television, film and video games. You will critically examine the institutional and economic imperatives that impact upon the nature of screen media and the textual properties of such media. Each week we will watch/engage with a set film, TV or video game text and do walkthrough analyses using a range of theoretical and methodological tools. For your assessment you will produce a pre-recorded presentation based upon a piece of scene analysis. You will then choose both a text for analysis and the approach you will take to it for your final analytical essay.
Additional Information:Students will be required to select an appropriate text for their assessment.

Assessments

Essay