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Undergraduate Film And Visual Culture 2016-2017

FS1008: INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL CULTURE

15 credits

Level 1

First Term

What is Visual Culture? Over the last twenty years, the visual landscape has become digital, virtual, viral, and global. A vibrant cross-section of scholars and practitioners from Art History, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, and Film Studies have responded, not only engaging contemporary image production and consumption, but also the foundations of visual knowledge: What is an image? What is vision? How and why do we look, gaze, and spectate? From the nomadic pathways of the digital archive to the embodied look that looks back, this course will introduce students to the key concepts that shape this fluid field.
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FS1508: INTRODUCTION TO FILM AND THE CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE

15 credits

Level 1

Second Term

This course offers an introduction to the language and practice of formal film analysis. Each week we will explore a different element of film form and analyze the ways in which it shapes the moving image.This course invites students to think about formal elements within and across a wide range of genres, styles, historical moments, and national contexts. By the end of this course, the successful FS1006 student will be able to recognize and communicate the ways in which meaning is made in cinema.

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FS2003: CINEMA AND MODERNITY

30 credits

Level 2

First Term

The first half of a film history sequence at the second year level, Cinema & Modernity focuses on crucial moments, concepts and cinematic works from the period 1895 to 1945. Students will be marked according to a mid-term essay, a final exam, short assignments on Blackboard, and attendance in lectures and tutorials.
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FS2506: CINEMA AND REVOLUTION

30 credits

Level 2

Second Term

The second half of a film history sequence at the second year level, Cinema & Revolution focuses on crucial moments, concepts and cinematic works from the period between 1945 and the present. Students will be marked according to a mid-term essay, a final exam, short assignments on Blackboard, and participation and attendance in lectures and tutorials. 
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FS3022: ART AND SCIENCE A

30 credits

Level 3

First Term

This course offers as an introduction to what is known as visual culture of science and its relationship with the body in the Western world. It provides students with a critical understanding of issues related to the human body and its status in modern and contemporary society, with particular regard to the representation, production and display of still and moving images/visualizations of the body in between art and medicine.
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FS30GB: PANOPTIC DIGITAL CULTURE A

30 credits

Level 3

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 the way in which 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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FS35MG: LABOUR, LEISURE AND THE MOVING IMAGE A

30 credits

Level 3

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 two essays, participation and attendance, presentations and weekly online contributions.
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FS35PB: POSTMODERN ART

30 credits

Level 3

Second Term

This course will introduce students to the major artists and key artistic movements in the Postmodern era, focusing on artists working in the United States and Europe, both East and West. The main focus will be on Postmodernism, with regard to Postmodern Art. From the explosion of conceptual art and the use of alternative media in the 1970s, to the return to painting in the 1980s and the eclecticism of the 1990s and beyond, this course will examine the vast array of artistic expression that developed in the latter half of the twentieth century.
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FS30PC: PERFORMANCE ART

30 credits

Level 4

First Term

This course will examine the phenomenon of performance art as it developed both in the capitalist West and the communist East. By considering the artistic production of Western artists in light of what their contemporaries were doing behind the Iron Curtain, we will arrive at a more nuanced understanding of performance art in general, and in the West. Furthermore, by examining these performances from the East in the context of theories expounded on the avant-garde, we will reconsider the idea of the end of the avant-garde and develop an expanded understanding of postmodern art practice.
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FS4022: ART AND SCIENCE B

30 credits

Level 4

First Term

This course offers as an introduction to what is known as visual culture of science and its relationship with the body in the Western world. It provides students with a critical understanding of issues related to the human body and its status in modern and contemporary society, with particular regard to the representation, production and display of still and moving images/visualizations of the body in between art and medicine.

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FS40GB: PANOPTIC DIGITAL CULTURE B

30 credits

Level 4

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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FS40PC: PERFORMANCE ART

30 credits

Level 4

First Term

This course will examine the phenomenon of performance art as it developed both in the capitalist West and the communist East. By considering the artistic production of Western artists in light of what their contemporaries were doing behind the Iron Curtain, we will arrive at a more nuanced understanding of performance art in general, and in the West. Furthermore, by examining these performances from the East in the context of theories expounded on the avant-garde, we will reconsider the idea of the end of the avant-garde and develop an expanded understanding of postmodern art practice.
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FS4506: DISSERTATION IN FILM & VISUAL CULTURE

30 credits

Level 4

Second Term

This course will provide students with guidance on writing a dissertation on a topic approved by the programme co-ordinator for the Head of School.
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FS45MG: LABOUR, LEISURE AND THE MOVING IMAGE B

30 credits

Level 4

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 two essays, participation and attendance, presentations and weekly online contributions.
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FS45PB: POSTMODERN ART

30 credits

Level 4

Second Term

This course will introduce students to the major artists and key artistic movements in the Postmodern era, focusing on artists working in the United States and Europe, both East and West. The main focus will be on Postmodernism, with regard to Postmodern Art. From the explosion of conceptual art and the use of alternative media in the 1970s, to the return to painting in the 1980s and the eclecticism of the 1990s and beyond, this course will examine the vast array of artistic expression that developed in the latter half of the twentieth century.
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