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The second half of a film history sequence at the second year level, Cinema & Revolution focuses on crucial moments, concepts and cinematic works from the period between 1945 and the present. Students will be marked according to a mid-term essay, a final exam, short assignments on Blackboard, and participation and attendance in lectures and tutorials.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 2 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Old Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This survey course introduces students to a selected constellation of significant visual and textual sites from the second fifty years of film practice. This course examines how cinema has responded to social, political and aesthetic revolutions in the second half of the twentieth century. Examples of the kinds of cinema to be discussed may include New Wave film-making in Europe , New Hollywood, Soviet and Eastern European cinema, national and third cinemas, the growth of new media.
Each week explores a different historical moment and a set of key film-theoretical concepts. Students will acquire not only a knowledge of these specific historical sites, but also a facility with critical and comparative thinking. The course aims to teach the students how to move between film practice, film history, and film theory to analyze the ways in which the moving image makes meaning. We will treat film as a product of the industrial age, as an element of urban culture, and as a means of imaginary transportation.
This is a compulsory course for entry into the Honours Film and Visual Culture programme.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
1st Attempt: 3-day take-away exam (50%). In-course assessment: one 2,000 word essay (40%) and tutorial assessment (10%).
Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).
Short writing assignments (including responses papers) will be submitted and discussed in tutorial groups.
Written and/or oral feedback will be offered on short tutorial assignments (see above) and essays.
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