Introduction to Film II: European Cinema

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• research a specific subject, using a range of resources (such as books, journal articles, internet data);
• conduct research
• structure written work towards communicating a lucid and original argument that draws on a wide range of secondary sources
• organise your time
• present written work in an appropriate style, with consistent referencing, proper bibliography and filmography, and conforming to grammatical conventions

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate an awareness of historical paradigms in Film Studies, and combine this with the tools of textual analysis acquired on the previous core module FILM1001.
• identify narrative, and audio-visual strategies and techniques in films, and interpret these according to selected critical methodologies
• engage with a range of different critical methodologies, and evaluate their use value for the interpretation of audio-visual texts and historical developments

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• discourses surrounding the distinction between popular culture and high art in European cinema
• the history of European cinema, both as an art form and as a mass medium, in different cultural contexts and transnationally
• the ways in which historical periods, artistic movements, and national (political, social, and cultural) contexts can be distinguished and evaluated

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Presentation

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Guidance on presentations, followed by feedback after the event, in tandem with self-evaluation
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: Yes

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.