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SLL40390

Academic Year 2024/2025

European Film Analysis (SLL40390)

Subject:
Languages, Cultures & Ling
College:
Arts & Humanities
School:
Languages, Cultures & Linguis
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
10
Module Coordinator:
Assoc Professor Douglas Smith
Trimester:
Autumn
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

In this module we will be focusing on some of the most significant theoretical and analytical approaches in film studies, ranging from early film theory to psychoanalysis, gender and postcolonialism. The weekly lecture-seminars will explore the main tenets of a range of theoretical perspectives through their application to some of the most exciting films made in post-war and contemporary Europe. Preparation for the lecture-seminars involves a weekly film viewing and reading programme. In this module students will learn how to analyse films from a variety of technical and theoretical viewpoints and to appreciate how the analysis of cinema is continually evolving. The core films we will focus on in 2023–24 are from Italy and France.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

Students who successfully complete this module will:
• Have become familiar with a range of major theoretical debates in cinema
• Have developed a solid knowledge of the main concerns of modern and contemporary Italian and French cinema
• Have become aware of the main issues surrounding the role of cinema in post-war Italian and French culture and society
• Have gained the ability to write convincingly about cinema at an academic level and developed basic skills in presentation.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Seminar (or Webinar)

22
Specified Learning Activities

100
Autonomous Student Learning

98
Total

220

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Weekly lecture-seminars including teacher presentation and student participation, based on a weekly programme of viewing and reading.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Learning Requirements:

BA studies or equivalent.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Assignment(Including Essay): 4000-word essay. Week 14 Graded No

80

 No
Individual Project: 10-minute recorded e-presentation. Week 15 Graded No

20

 No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Advice on assessment tasks will be available in advance and feedback available post-assessment.

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