Unit information: Screen Forms and Analysis in 2021/22

Unit name	Screen Forms and Analysis
Unit code	FATVM0016
Credit points	20
Level of study	M/7
Teaching block(s)	Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
Unit director	Dr. Gaggiotti
Open unit status	Not open
Pre-requisites	None
Co-requisites	None
School/department	Department of Film and Television
Faculty	Faculty of Arts

Description including Unit Aims

This unit seeks to examine a range of types of film and screen media. It combines discussion of key concepts with in-class screening and analysis, encouraging a flexible and alert approach to the close analysis of screen texts. The students will also be familiariased with a variety of styles and conventions ranging from mainstream cinema to the avant-garde, encouraging the comparative narrative, mise-en-scene, genre, editing and sound as applied to a number of case studies.

Aims:

• To investigate critically the narrative strategies used in a broad range of films and/or other media and how these construct meanings and pleasures

• To develop the application of key concepts in the close textual analysis of screen media forms

• To explore a range of functions and uses of film form

• To see the ways in which different stylistic forms generate contrasting meanings and pleasures

• To demonstrate the practice of close textual analysis.

Intended Learning Outcomes

• To be able to apply established terms and approaches to the textual analysis of screen media

• To articulate and interrogate the potential implications of different stylistic formations

• To distinguish between different approaches to stylistic analysis

• To be able to present a clear and well-structured argument evidenced through close textual analysis

• To understand the implications of different styles, genres and forms for close textual analysis.

Teaching Information

Weekly seminar, lecture, and screening.

Assessment Information

Short essay (1,000 words) 20%; plus long essay (4,000 words) 80%

Resources

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How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks, independent learning and assessment activity.

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Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit. The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. If you have self-certificated your absence from an assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any extenuating circumstances and operates within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.