Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Humanities and Social Science

Learning Methods

Lecture
Seminar

Module Offerings

6117MEDCUL-JAN-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 screen media texts and the cultures within which they were are produced and consumed.
2.
Offer a scene analysis of a given screen media text
3.
Critically evaluate and identify an appropriate analytical framework for a self-selected screen media text.
4.
Offer a theoretically informed analysis of a self-selected screen media text.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:
Is there a language of screen media; The Classic Realist Text; Narrative Structure and Myth; TV and Flexi-Narrative; TVIII and the Post-Network Era; The Wii and Casual Gaming; The Power of the Edit; First-person shooters and the apparatus of the videogame; Social and digital screen media.
Module Overview:
Within this module you will have the opportunity to develop critical, analytical and evaluative skills appropriate to the textual study of screen media. You will begin to identify and critically evaluate the discursive roots of given examples drawn from screen media. This will further provide you the opportunity to develop a critical understanding of screen media narratives and their historical contexts.
Additional Information:
This module involves the development of relevant analytical skills for the analysis of a range of screen media, concluding with the detailed analysis of a self-selected screen media.

Assessments

Presentation
Report