Postgraduate Course: Contemporary Japanese Cinema (ASST11057)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Asian Studies |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course will explore Japanese contemporary film in the context of socio-political change since the bursting of the 1980s economic bubble.
Attention will be paid to locating cinema within the debate on the many social issues to have emerged since 1989, including but not limited to: Japanese national identity, migration and multiculturalism, economic restructuring, tradition and aesthetics, consumption and the virtual, minorities and youth culture.
Therefore, as well as developing a critical appreciation of contemporary Japanese cinema, the course acts as an approach to thinking about more general issues facing Japanese contemporary society. As such, students will be expected to draw upon the wide literature in English on both Japanese cinema and contemporary Japanese society, and demonstrate this knowledge through discussion, debate, presentations and written work.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Friday |
| Central | Tutorial | | 2-11 | | 14:00 - 15:50 | | | |
| First Class |
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Students who have completed this course successfully will have:
&· Watched, analysed and discussed a range of key films representative of contemporary Japanese cinema
&· Reviewed theoretical approaches to reading and interpreting film
&· Acquired knowledge of social issues in contemporary Japanese society
&· Presented a critical reading of one or more films that deal with a particular social theme in Japan
&· Produced rigorously researched and theoretically informed written work in the form of a 4,000 word essay
2. Students who have completed this course successfully will be able to:
&· Critically analyse contemporary Japanese Cinema and apply this knowledge elsewhere
&· Identify key directors, their works and stylistic approach
&· Identify themes in contemporary Japanese cinema and relate them to $ùreal world&© social issues.
&· Critically integrate contemporary Japanese film into discourses on the post-modern / late modern condition.
&· Apply different theoretical perspectives to reading Japanese film
&· Engage in informed debate over major issues in contemporary Japanese society
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Assessment Information
One 4,000-word essay (85%)
One assessed presentation (15%)
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Christopher Perkins
Tel: (0131 6)50 4174
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Course secretary | Miss Catherine Mcdonald
Tel: (0131 6)51 1822
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