760-252 Filmic Text: Special Study

Formerly available as 760-221 Genre and Auterism. Students who have completed 760-221 Genre and Auterism are not eligible to enrol in this subject. BA students may credit this subject to a Cinema Studies major.

12.5 points of first year media arts subject.

This subject examines the 'textuality' of film. Focussing on a selection of cinematic and televisual examples, it attempts to read and con-textualise them through the potential application of a range of differentiated yet inter-related interpretative frameworks including, for example, such approaches as semiotics, reception theory, genre studies, auteur theory, hermeneutics, and post-structuralism. In doing so it also attempts to evaluate the efficacy of each of these differing approaches.

• research through competent use of the library and other information sources, and through defining areas of enquiry and methods of research;

• demonstrate teamwork through joint performance preparation;

• demonstrate time management, independent organization and planning;

• communicate knowledge in oral, written and/or creative form;

• think critically and analysis through recommended reading, essay writing, workshop practice and performance and by determining the strength of an argument or approach to performance.

Written work totalling 4000 words comprising a 2000 word essay 50% (due mid semester) and a 2000 word essay 50% (due at end of semester).