107-458 Screen Affect: Culture, Bodies, Emotion

Admission to the postgraduate diploma or fourth year honours in cinema studies or art history or cultural studies.

This subject will explore visual representations of culture: aesthetic, affective, and political to explore the various levels of affect. Affect is a core concept in interpretive visual methodologies, involving the analysis of bodies within contextual frameworks. Through screen cultures, the subject will explore how affective outcomes in visual culture effects the interpretation of an array of issues, including: traditions of cultural knowledge, memory, temporal layering, spatial histories, gendered performative behaviour, ritual practices, narrative techniques, methodologies of spectatorship, auditory appreciation, social responsibilities, political actions. Topics covered will relate to contemporary aspects of screen culture and screen mediums of the 20th - 21st century. Students will develop an appreciation of the methods by which contemporary visual techniques intensify and enhance our perceptual faculties.

• have critical skills in analysing visual and theoretical material at honours year level;

• have considered the methods of interpreting social, political, cultural, and aesthetic implications of screen cultures;

• possess an ability to communicate knowledge intelligibly, economically and effectively.

A team case study and presentation of 2500 words 30% (commencing at the beginning of semester and due at the end of semester) and a 2500 word research essay 70% (due at the end of semester).