Global Cinema
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| CULT3038 | Cultural, Media and Visual Studies | 3 | 20 | Autumn UK |
- Code
- CULT3038
- School
- Cultural, Media and Visual Studies
- Level
- 3
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Autumn UK
Summary
This module investigates critical concepts and theoretical work on cinema in global context, introducing students to critical and theoretical models surrounding global production, film texts, distribution and reception. Building on theories and methods introduced in ‘Transnational Media’ and other Film and Television Studies and International Media and Communications Studies modules, the module locates aspects of global cinema within historical contexts of production and consumption. In particular, the module will work to untangle such overlapping categories as global cinema, transnational cinema and world cinema.
The module uses specific cases and categories in global cinema to interrogate films that both serve and challenge the interests of their producing cultures’ dominant institutions. Workshops, readings and screenings will involve historical and contemporary cases from a range of national, regional, colonial and postcolonial cinemas, including films from North and South America, Europe, and East and Southeast Asia. Because of the vast range of output and categories of global cinema—in popular genres such as action and horror, in industrial or institutional categories such as blockbusters and art cinema, and in regional or global movements such as Third Cinema or social realism—the module will adopt a particular focus each year to narrow the range of texts and categories under investigation.
A single coursework assessment will replace all failed assessment components at the reassessment stage.
Target Students
Only available for International Media & Communication Studies students, Film and Television Studies students, Liberal Arts students and Exchange students
Classes
- One 3-hour workshop each week for 11 weeks
- One 1-hour seminar each week for 11 weeks
The School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies operates an attendance policy. The details of this policy can be found in the student handbook on Workspace and in module handbooks.
Assessment
- 100% Coursework: Coursework - 3,500 words portfolio of written work and equivalent
Assessed by end of autumn semester
Educational Aims
To extend students' awareness of the breadth of global film production and industries; to examine global cinema in historical and cultural context; to introduce students to advanced study of global films and reception phenomena through primary research and secondary critical materials; to enable students to analyze the cultural, economic, ideological, and industrial factors that contribute to film production and circulation.Learning Outcomes
A) Knowledge and Understanding. By the end of the module students should be able to:
Understand different critical approaches to global cinemas;
Assess specific films and movements in local, regional and global contexts;
Understand cinema in generic, industrial, institutional and geocultural contexts; and Analyze specific film texts as aesthetic, commercial and cultural objects.
B) Intellectual Skills. The module will develop students' ability to:
Apply ideas and concepts in the discussion of cultural texts and materials; and
Construct coherent and independent arguments.
C) Professional Skills: The module will develop students' ability to:
Acquire and synthesize information from a variety of primary and secondary sources; and
Write accurately and grammatically and present written material using appropriate conventions.
D) Transferable Skills: The module will also develop students' ability to:
Manage a large and disparate body of information;
Use IT to word process their assessed essays; and
Speak and write cogently about a chosen subject area.