FM1002 Global Film History and Historiography
Academic year
2024 to 2025 Semester 2
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Key module information
SCOTCAT credits
20
SCQF level
SCQF level 7
Planned timetable
3.00 pm Mon and Thu, 12.00 - 3.00 pm Fri (screening)
Module Staff
Professor Tom Rice, tbc
Module description
What is film history and what can we learn from it? This module examines the historical development of film around the world and will introduce you to a range of moments that have shaped film history. It asks how films were made, exhibited, and understood, and why cinema evolved in the ways that it did in particular places, at particular times, and in particular forms. We will examine film history in a global context, exploring international developments in, amongst other places, Japan, Senegal, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, the United States, and Britain. The module is organised thematically in order to demonstrate there is no single way to narrate film history. Beginning with an overview of what film history is, we move on to consider the intimate links between cinema and modernity, followed by histories of technology and aesthetics, before examining new cinemas and, finally, forms of filmmaking and film cultures that have conventionally been lost or overlooked in dominant modes of writing film history. Throughout the module, students will be encouraged to engage with primary materials and will be challenged to think about the methods and approaches for writing and researching film.
Relationship to other modules
Pre-requisites
BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS FM1001
Assessment pattern
2-hour Online Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
Re-assessment
3-hour Online Examination = 100%
Learning and teaching methods and delivery
Weekly contact
2 x 1-hour lectures, a 1-hour seminar and screening (typically 2 hours)
Scheduled learning hours
55
Guided independent study hours
145