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DUBAI-ISC-TJD-INT-2020-2020
MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2018-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2018-ONGOING

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Unit content:SCR348 introduces students to a series of methods, theories and approaches. It aims to encourage students to write about screen art and film culture in an analytical, systemic and critical way. To do so, students will engage with the terminology, conceptualisation, and theorization of screen studies. Topics will include film and television genres, film narrative, authorship and author theory, film and ideology, sociological, feminist, semiotic and psychoanalytic approaches, as well as cultural criticism and the representation of nation, race, and gender. Throughout the unit, the lectures will introduce and define the concepts for each week’s topic, as well as the theoretical framework within which the concepts are to be employed. In this respect, the lectures will mainly deal with the conceptual and theoretical tools needed for screen text analysis. The emphasis in the workshop-tutorials will be on the consolidation of the students’ conceptual grasp and the practical application of concepts and theories to film and televisual texts. It is in the tutorials where the practical learning of screen analysis starts and will continue throughout the duration of the unit. At the completion of the unit, students should be in a strong position to write critical screen text analyses competently and systemically by backing up their interpretations with the concepts provided and from within a recognizable theoretical framework.