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| Unit name |
Screen Research |
| Unit code |
FATVM0002 |
| Credit points |
20 |
| Level of study |
M/7
|
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24)
|
| Unit director |
Dr. Piper |
| 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 provides an introduction to a range of key techniques for research in screen studies, as well as offering insight into the research of related media forms. The unit analyses different approaches to research problems and their investigation by drawing on a range of illustrative case studies. It explores some of the methodological problems presented by the moving image that are relevant to the different research questions and objectives. Students will engage with key areas of screen research that may be relevant to the their future dissertation projects.
Unit Aims:
- To introduce key research techniques in film and television studies including, for example, textual, historical, contextual and practical approaches.
- To provide students with transferable skills of researching and presenting a sustained piece of independent critical reflection on a particular research approach or methodology.
- To explore a variety of different research questions and approaches to research
- To encourage development of research ideas and their practical realisation
- To foster a research culture of independent enquiry.
Intended Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, students will:
- Be familiar with a range of research problems and deployment of relevant methods for their academic exploration.
- Have acquired knowledge about different approaches to research in film and television including practice as a form of research.
- Have developed skills in testing theories and ideas and in interrogating a range of source materials.
- Have developed skills of critical reflection on different methodologies and the ability to present relevant observations in a clear and scholarly fashion.
- Have developed the ability to formulate their own research interests into appropriate research questions and to formulate a proposal for a dissertation project which identifies and explains appropriate approaches/methodologies.
Teaching Information
Seminars/workshops and screenings.
Assessment Information
Essay of 3,500 words (70%) plus Dissertation Proposal or 1,500 words (30%)
Reading and References
- Benshoff, Harry (2015) Film and Television Analysis: An Introduction to Methods, Theories, and Approaches, Routledge.
- Hill, John and Pamela Church Gibson, eds. (1998) The Oxford Guide to Film Studies,Oxford University Press..
- Barret, Estelle, ed. (2010) Practice as research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry, I.B. Tauris.
- Street, Sarah, (2000) British Cinema in Documents, Routledge.
- Nelson, R, ed. (2013) practice as research in the arts: principles, protocols, pedagogies, resistances, Springer.
