Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024 No Banner module data is available
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Description This module documents and analyses the major developments in the evolution of cinema in a socio-historical context. It explores the key theoretical tools used to understand film and demonstrates how to apply these in order to critically analyse a broad range of films. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning Outcomes 1. Identify and describe the major technological and artistic milestones in the history and pre-history of cinema 2. Explain and socially contextualise the core cinematic traditions that emerged out of America, Europe and the Soviet Union 3. Master the key theoretical frameworks used to analyse cinema such as genre, narrative, semiotics, feminist analysis, auteur theory and audience studies 4. Synthesise and apply the theoretical material in order to critically analyse a film or a body of filmic work 5. Advance original arguments regarding cinema s role in society using the relevant literature and original examples | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
The pre-history of cinema.Early experiments in cinema, technological versus cultural determinsim.Basic codes and techniques of cinema.Realism versus artifice, The Lumières and George Mélies.Griffith and the rise of Hollywood.The Birth of a Nation and editing.Montage and modernism.Eisenstein and Soviet cinema.German Expressionism.Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler, the 'optical unconscious'.Auteur Theory.Cahiers du Cinéma and the 'politique des auteurs'.Genre and society.The western, the gangster film, film noir, horror, musical, melodrama.The woman's film.The male gaze, gender and the voice.Sound and the voice.Narration, the voice and the psychological functioning of sound in cinema.'Alternative', experimental and counter-cinema.Challenging Hollywood, queer cinema, art film / film art.New cinemas in a globalised, digital age.Bollywood and Nollywood, film in the digital age, realism and special effects. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Indicative Reading List
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Other Resources 55860, Online Journal, 0, Jump Cut - Review of Comtemporary Media, http://www.ejumpcut.org, 55861, Online Journal, 0, Sense of Cinema, http://www.sensesofcinema.com, 55862, Online Journal, 0, Cineaste journal, http://www.cineaste.com, 55863, Online Journal, 0, British Film Institute, http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||