Undergraduate Course: Introduction to Film Studies (LLLG07094)
Course Outline
| School | Centre for Open Learning |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This is a for-credit course offered by the Centre for Open Learning (COL); only students registered with COL should be enrolled.
Learn more about film style, narrative, editing, camera work and film history. Based around fascinating and often surprising film clips from the early years of cinema to the present day, this course will offer you new ways of looking at film and allow you to explore and develop your own ideas through class discussion.
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| Course description |
1.Narrative. Rear Window
2.Style. La Regle de Jeu
3. Editing, Breathless
4. Genre. The Searchers
5. Authorship. Mulholland Dr.
6. Realism. Bicycle Thieves
7. Documentary/Ideology Battleship Potemkin
8. Stardom. Raging Bull
9. Recent American Cinema Elephant
10. Recent European Cinema. The Child
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2019/20, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 16 |
| Course Start |
Lifelong Learning - Session 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
78 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
2000 word film review essay |
| Feedback |
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the basic interpretive techniques of film-making: eg know how camerawork, editing, mis-en-scène are used to create meaning
- Appreciate how a combination of industrial, commercial and artistic factors contributes to shape the history of cinema as an art form.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the ways in which films are made from socio-political and ideological angles and how these shape the representation of characters, places, etc.
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Reading List
Essential
Bordwell, D.& Thompson, K. 2010 paperback or any other edition. Film Art: An Introduction. USA: McGraw-Hill
Recommended
Monaco, J. 2009 paperback or any other edition. How to Read a Film, London, Oxford University Press.
Cook P. and Bernink M. The Cinema Book, London, bfi, any edition.
Bazin, André. 1984. What is Cinema?, vol 1 and 2, Berkeley, University of California Press.
Bordwell, D. 2006. The Way Hollywood Tells It, Berkeley, University of California Press.
Perez, G, 1998. The Material Ghost, London, Johns Hopkins University Press |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | film studies |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Kate McHugh
Tel: (0131 6)51 1589
Email: |
Course secretary | Ms Kameliya Skerleva
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
Email: |
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