Auteur filmmakers: case studies in cinema

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• The diversity and recurrence of themes, formal strategies and stylistic features styles in the work of one director;
• The industrial, socio-political and cinematic contexts in which the chosen director works;
• The construction and articulation of one director’s authorial persona in the discourses around her/his films.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Write effectively, accurately and critically in an appropriate academic style.
• Coherently and persuasively argue your ideas.
• Independently identify and locate appropriate critical resources.
• Organise your time successfully, respecting and meeting deadlines.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Apply different theoretical models and concepts to a variety of filmic texts.
• Successfully analyse specific filmic texts, situating this analysis in aesthetic and cultural context.
• Understand and use a range of specialised terms and concepts.
• Engage critically with a range of theoretical material

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.