FIL-10019 - Module Specification
School of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

Film style is one of the primary ways through which we understand and appreciate any given film, but how do we identify its effects on viewers? And how, too, do we make sense of the evolutions of style across different contexts of film production? This module provides an invaluable grounding in the analysis and theoretical understanding of film style, in terms of its historical development, its movement across different sites and cultures of film production, and its basis in technological invention and change. Combining the close analysis of particular films and film tendencies, with a comparative view of changing conventions and innovations, the module will give students the technical and analytical vocabulary to identify, and discuss the impacts, of film style across and within a range of contexts. As such, it will be an important base for the further study of film, as well as the application of theoretical ideas of film style to practical filmmaking options.

This module will provide students with the historical and theoretical knowledge, and the analytical tools, to be able to identify and discuss film style across a range of film-production contexts. It will inform wider study and analysis of film at all subsequent levels, and also support students engaged in practical filmmaking options.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Identify and compare different film styles across specific contexts of film production: 1,2
Enter into theoretical discussion around the impacts of film style choices, and the ideas and intentions behind them: 1,2
Demonstrate their understanding of film style and its effects, via close analysis and discussion of content: 1,2
Produce detailed and informed works of film analysis and comparison, utilising screen images in conjunction with textual discussion: 1,2
Apply knowledge of film style both to wider practical work, and other theoretical and historical discussions of film at all levels of study: 1,2

Study hours

10 x 2-hour film screenings, including short introduction = 20 hours
12 x 1-hour lectures = 12 hours
12 x 1-hour seminars = 12 hours
1 hour individual discussion/feedback of assessment = 1 hours
Reading and preparation for seminars 12 x 2 hours = 24 hours
Preparation for first assessment = 31 hours
Preparation for second assessment = 50 hours

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment