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 of, and critical engagement with, the different ways in which cities are represented in film by whom and to what ends.
2. Evaluate the different ways in which cities are theoretically conceptualised 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.
4. To understand the city of Liverpool’s role as both film location and filmmaker’s city.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically engage with, and evaluate complex theories, principles, and debates, which underpin the study of Cities in relation to Culture and Creativity
2.
Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding and critical awareness of how cities are represented in film to specific case studies in practical and/or written form.
3.
Demonstrate advanced literacy and oral communication skills, including the ability to present a rhetorically effective, coherent, well-supported, and sustained argument in either written and/or filmed form.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
This module focuses on how the city functions in film as both setting and character. Using a loosely chronological structure, it begins by examining urban representations in early 20th Century documentary and fiction films. Central here is the tradition of ‘City Symphony’ films of New York, Berlin, Paris, Moscow, London and Nice.
The module then considers cinematic representations of the city in fiction films from the latter half of the 20th C into the 21st C, as well as Future Cities. The city is analysed in terms of spatial segregation associated with race, class, gender, sexuality and cultural identity in general.
Students are also introduced to Liverpool as a filmmaker’s city, made visible through focus on the institutional and creative opportunities that the city offers through stakeholders such as Liverpool Film Office, Tate Gallery and FACT), as well as, potentially their own filmmaking activity in the context of this module.
This module focuses on how the city functions in film as both setting and character. Using a loosely chronological structure, it begins by examining urban representations in early 20th Century documentary and fiction films. Central here is the tradition of ‘City Symphony’ films of New York, Berlin, Paris, Moscow, London and Nice.
The module then considers cinematic representations of the city in fiction films from the latter half of the 20th C into the 21st C, as well as Future Cities. The city is analysed in terms of spatial segregation associated with race, class, gender, sexuality and cultural identity in general.
Students are also introduced to Liverpool as a filmmaker’s city, made visible through focus on the institutional and creative opportunities that the city offers through stakeholders such as Liverpool Film Office, Tate Gallery and FACT), as well as, potentially their own filmmaking activity in the context of this module.
Module Overview:
This module affords students the opportunity to analyse how the city is represented in film with regard to its social, cultural, political, economic and ecological context, as well as how it acts as film location and a centre of production.
This module affords students the opportunity to analyse how the city is represented in film with regard to its social, cultural, political, economic and ecological context, as well as how it acts as film location and a centre of production.