Film Policy: National and Global Contexts (Research)

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• make judgements about key aesthetic debates that impact on policy making decisions in the cultural sector, with particular reference to film
• access recent research findings on the development of cultural & film policy
• evaluate different models of cultural and film policy
• analyse and interpret the social, cultural and economic factors that impact on the contemporary cultural sector, in particular in relation to the film industry
• present coherent arguments on specific topics related to the cultural sector
• analyse how ideas about culture are embodied in cultural and film policy

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• different models of cultural and film policy making internationally and their impact on the industry
• the social, historical and economic contexts in which the cultural sector operates and has developed
• the place of aesthetic debates about traditional arts in a context where the cultural industries such as the film industry are increasingly dominant
• the shifting relationship between government policy and the cultural sector, such as that in the UK

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate effective research skills across discipline boundaries
• define and manage an extended interdisciplinary written task

Formative

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

Class Exercise

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Oral feedback
• 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.