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99 modules found

  2. FM1001 - Key Concepts in Film Studies
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    1000
    Timetable
    3.00 pm Mon and Thu, Screening 12-3 Fri & 7-10pm Mon
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%

    In this introductory module, we examine key concepts and approaches that are relevant to the study of film. The module aims primarily to develop the skills needed for film…

  3. FM1002 - Global Film History and Historiography
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    1000
    Timetable
    3.00 pm Mon and Thu, 12.00 - 3.00 pm Fri & 7.00 -10.00 pm Mon (screening)
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Dr T M Parks

    This module introduces key movements and moments in film history across the first fifty years of film. Students will first examine the major formal, technological, and industrial…

  4. FM2001 - Modern World Cinemas
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    2000
    Timetable
    3.00 pm Tue and Fri, 7.00 - 10.00 pm Tue (screening)
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Dr T M Parks

    This module continues the exploration of issues of film history and historiography which began in FM1002. It introduces students to significant cinematic developments across the…

  5. FM2002 - Film Culture, Theory, Entertainment
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    2000
    Timetable
    3.00 pm Tue and Fri, 7.00 - 10.00 pm Tue (screening)
    Assessment
    60% coursework, 40% examination.
    Coordinator
    Prof M Cowan

    This module introduces a range of political, philosophical, and cultural approaches to the cinema, centring on the key insights, the breakthrough critical ideas that have informed …

  6. FM2003 - Screen Cultures today: media and methods
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    2000
    Timetable
    3.00 pm - 4.00 pm Tue, Fri
    Assessment
    Coursework = 60%, Written Examination = 40%
    Coordinator
    Prof M Cowan

    This module addresses disciplinary questions being asked of film and other screen media today through a global approach to screen cultures and scholarship. The module asks…

  7. FM4099 - Film Studies Dissertation
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    30
    Level
    4000
    Timetable
    To be confirmed.
    Assessment
    Coursework = 100%
    Coordinator
    Dr Z R Shacklock

    The dissertation offers students the possibility of personal advanced study on a topic in Film Studies on which they already have adequate basic knowledge and for which a suitable …

  8. FM4099 - Film Studies Dissertation
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    30
    Level
    4000
    Timetable
    To be confirmed.
    Assessment
    Coursework = 100%
    Coordinator
    Dr Z R Shacklock

    The dissertation offers students the possibility of personal advanced study on a topic in Film Studies on which they already have adequate basic knowledge and for which a suitable …

  9. FM4102 - Cinema and Politics
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    30
    Level
    4000
    Timetable
    To be confirmed.
    Assessment
    Coursework = 100%
    Coordinator
    Dr T M Parks

    Lenin famously called cinema the most important art, and since at least the 1920s, filmmakers and theorists have explored the politics of cinema and cinema's potential as…

  10. FM4107 - Cinema and Nation
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    30
    Level
    4000
    Timetable
    To be confirmed.
    Assessment
    Coursework = 100%
    Coordinator
    Dr T W T Rice

    This module addresses the central notion that a national cinema can be more fruitfully understood in terms of the conflicts and discrepancies within a given culture to which its…

  11. FM4113 - Ecocinema: The Nature of Film
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    30
    Level
    4000
    Timetable
    To be confirmed.
    Assessment
    Coursework = 100%
    Coordinator
    Dr L F Donaldson

    This Honours module explores cinema's relationship to the natural environment through a combination of historical, textual, and theoretical analysis. Students will study the…