Year
2018
Units
4.5
Contact
1 x 1-hour lecture weekly
10 x 2-hour seminars per semester
1 x 2-hour film screening weekly
10 x 2-hour seminars per semester
1 x 2-hour film screening weekly
Prerequisites
9 units of second level SCME, SCRN or MDIA topics
Enrolment not permitted
SCRN3002 has been successfully completed
Topic description
This topic investigates the performance of fantasy in a variety of cinematic and other visual texts including television. It considers fantasy as an ideological formation as well as a specific narrative mode. In comparing a variety of examples grouped stylistically including realism, international art-house and fantasy as generic form, the topic examines the rhetorical organisation of fantasy in fiction, the application of psychoanalytic theory to the cinema, and arguments contrasting modernism and post-modernism.
Educational aims
This topic aims to:
- provide an advanced knowledge of film theory and criticism and their underlying principles
- introduce students to the critical and theoretical concepts used to analyse the work of an individual producer of screen-based media
- develop students' analytical skills and their capacity to research and apply their understanding to a range of cinematic and televisual practices
Expected learning outcomes
On completion of this topic students will be able to:
- evaluate and employ a critical and theoretical terminology used to analyse both individual work and the commercial/industrial contexts in which they are made
- employ an understanding of screen aesthetics and ideology found in creative practices
- undertake supervised research and present argument
Key dates and timetable
Timetable details for 2018 are no longer published.
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