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Postgraduate Film And Visual Culture 2016-2017

FS5017: INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL CULTURE AND THEORY

30 credits

Level 5

First Term

This course will begin by taking a historical perspective to discuss some of the key interventions which have helped define visual culture as a field of enquiry, including work by Benjamin, Barthes, Burgin, Mitchell and Rosler among others. It will move on to explore some key theoretical concepts and paradigms, such as authorship, spectatorship, materiality, semiotics, digital culture and the archive.

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FS5018: PANOPTIC DIGITAL VISUAL CULTURE

30 credits

Level 5

First Term

This practice-based course will explore the role of panoptic observation within film and the arts, and in contemporary society and trace its historical roots. Students will work in production teams to complete two films through which they will examine ways our society has embraced a public surveillance application of CCTV and web cam culture, augmented by digital cameras and the mobile phone camera.

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FS5517: CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF VISUAL CULTURE

30 credits

Level 5

First Term

Students will be introduced to the critical analysis of visual culture through discussion of classic studies from secondary literature across film, photography and visual culture.  Students will identify and define a corpus of primary visual material in consultation with the course leader, to serve as the basis for student-led workshops and subsequent assessed coursework. Workshops will involve close analysis and discussion of specific examples, by way of preparation for the assessed essay and blog post. The latter will focus on a single image and will train students in writing for a non-academic audience.
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FS5522: LABOUR, LEISURE AND THE MOVING IMAGE

30 credits

Level 5

Second Term

Analysing the moving image's relationship to industrialism, leisure time, consumerism, post-Fordism and many other issues, the course will link a diverse group of visual works to important historical and theoretical trends in the work and free time of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Each week will be organised around an overarching theme (work, strike, automation, the idle rich etc.), pairing important texts in the history and theory of labour with relevant film works and analysis. Students will be marked according to participation in seminar and a final research essay.
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FS5902: DISSERTATION IN FILM AND VISUAL CULTURE

60 credits

Level 5

Second Term

Candidates will be required to research and write a 12,000-word dissertation on a subject and in an area approved by the Programme Co-ordinator.
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