Module description
This module aims to provide students with an opportunity to study, at an advanced level, aspects of media, form, and genre, and the relationship between them. The precise content and methodology of the module may vary from year to year, depending on the convener, but it will always take its lead from one or other of these issues - for example, media (e.g. focusing on film, television and/or video); form (e.g. focusing on fiction/non-fiction, narrative/non-narrative, and/or mainstream/avant-garde moving images), or genre (e.g. focusing on the exploitation film, art cinema, artists' film and video, the essay film, documentary, blockbuster, television serial, melodrama, comedy, the musical, or the historical film). The module may range across a variety of examples from various geographic locales and historical time periods or have a concentrated focus on one or two. It aims to provide students with an in-depth knowledge and understanding of a variety of moving image artefacts or texts and the ability to analyse and interpret their medium, form, and genre, situating and discussing those in relation to specialist literature and creative practice. The module will also provide students with opportunities for advanced reflection on the technological, social, cultural, and industrial factors which give rise to media and to specific forms and genres, and to consider the audiences which specific media, forms, or genres attract or are aimed at. Lastly, the module will provide students with knowledge and understanding of the important range of creative practice and scholarly investigation which has worked across media (through, for example, concepts such as 'multimedia', 'intermediality', or 'media archaeology'). Where relevant, the module may incorporate student visits to London media organizations, cinemas, museums, or galleries. Depending on the convener, the precise weighting of the above elements may vary from year to year.
Assessment details
Educational aims & objectives
To provide students with an opportunity to study, at an advanced level, aspects of media, form, and genre, and the relationship between them.
To provide students with an in-depth knowledge and understanding of a variety of moving image artefacts or texts and the ability to analyze and interpret their medium, form, and genre, situating and discussing those in relation to specialist literature and creative practice.
To provide students with opportunities for advanced reflection on the technological, social, cultural, and industrial factors which give rise to media and to specific forms and genres.
To consider the audiences which specific media, forms, or genres attract or are aimed at.
To provide students with knowledge and understanding of the important range of creative practice and scholarly investigation which has worked across media (through, for example, concepts such as 'multimedia', 'intermediality', or 'media archaeology')
Where relevant, to provide students with opportunities to visit and learn from visits to London media organizations, cinemas, museums, or galleries.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this module, students will have studied, at an advanced level, aspects of media, form, and genre, and the relationship between them.
Students will have achieved an in-depth knowledge and understanding of a variety of moving image artefacts or texts and the ability to analyze and interpret their medium, form, and genre.
Students will have reflected on the technological, social, cultural, and industrial factors which give rise to media and to specific forms and genres.
Students will have considered the audiences which specific media, forms, or genres attract or are aimed at.
Students will have advanced knowledge of the range of creative practice and scholarly investigation which has worked across various types of media.
Where relevant, students will have developed an advanced knowledge of London media organizations, cinemas, museums, or galleries.