Postgraduate Course: Mediating Film (CLLC11142)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will continue to explore historical and technological developments in relation to the form and content of the moving image, and help you to understand the nature of its circulation through a wide range of locations - exhibition spaces and discursive spaces; geographic, generic, social and virtual spaces.
You will be introduced to studies of exhibition practice and economic, policy-based and industrial frameworks. You will learn how to conceptualise the shifting relations between national and transnational models in relation to different forms of film production and exhibition. An inter-related programme of screenings, research seminars and applied workshops will enable you to deepen and test your understanding of film¿s movements.
Teaching and reading will be organised around the themes of travel and transmission, with a central concern with questions of circulation and communication. Contemporary shifts in the circulation of film will be traced through the examination of the role of fans, of archives, of broadcasting, and of print and online publishing.
The course will examine different models of curatorship and wider questions of cultural mediation, looking at how to construct potential audiences and how to connect and communicate across a range of media forms and genres.
The course combines the development of professional practice with theoretical approaches to questions of spectatorship, fandom, taste, genre and the archive.
The course will be delivered through weekly two hour seminars. Core teaching will be delivered by the programme directors, but it is anticipated that this will be enhanced by additional presentations and/ or workshops from a range of invited speakers with professional expertise in exhibition, archiving and production. |
| Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 28 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 30,
External Visit Hours 3,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
141 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Students will produce a 4,000 word essay on a theme drawn from the course. |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- extend their understanding of how films communicate with their audiences and how the moving image is mediated across a range of contexts, genres and forms
- uncover aspects of the relationship between cinema institutions, technologies and audiences, and consider the relationship between film¿s past and unstable present
- identifie, analyse and evaluate case studies of divergent models of film mediation which have the capacity to inform creative practice, working across disciplines and between critical and applied practices in the field
- experiment with the presentation of critical and creative work in different forms through individual and group work
- develop critically informed and autonomous perspectives on the significance and value of different kinds of moving image curation; and interrogate the identity and function of different kinds of curators
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | MF |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Jane Sillars
Tel: (0131 6)50 2945
Email: jane.sillars@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Inga Ackermann
Tel: (0131 6)50 4465
Email: Inga.Ackermann@ed.ac.uk |
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