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On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
1. Apply key theories and concepts of film studies to their analysis of individual films.
2. Conduct close textual analysis of the key films.
3. Critically analyse the conventions and cultural significance of key genre categories.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of social issues that inform the production and reception context of the key films.
5. Demonstrate an understanding of some of the key moments and debates in Italian cinema history.
6. Apply a comparative approach to the analysis of two or more films in the final essay
7. Use a range of theoretical and critical sources to ground their argument in the final essay.
Topics covered in this module include:
- Introduction to Italian film studies and genre theory
- Genre as an analytic tool for exploring social change
- Neorealism
- Auteur cinema
- Commedia all’italiana
- Spaghetti western
- Horror and thriller
- Migration cinema
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 12 |
Tutorial | 12 |
Specified Learning Activities | 43 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 43 |
Total | 110 |
An interest in Italian cinema, culture and society.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Quizzes/Short Exercises: mid-term online quiz on the content covered in weeks 1-7 | Week 7 | Alternative linear conversion grade scale 40% | No | 20 |
No |
Quizzes/Short Exercises: End-of-term online quiz on the content covered in weeks 8-12 | Week 12 | Alternative linear conversion grade scale 40% | No | 20 |
No |
Assignment(Including Essay): 3000 words final essay. Students can choose from a range of titles. | Week 14 | Graded | No | 60 |
No |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Autumn | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback
• Peer review activities
For the quizzes: feedback is automatically generated by the system. An informal feedback will also be provided to the group in class. For the final essay: written feedback will be provided to each Individual student. The weekly seminars will consist of discussion based activities during which there will be regular opportunities for peer feedback