2023/2024
Modern Film Industry: Production, Distribution, Viewership
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Mago-Lego
Delivered by:
Institute of Media
When:
2 module
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors:
Костопулос Кристос
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
24
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course introduces the student to contemporary film genres, both in fiction and non-fiction modes of film making. The emphasis is on searching for meaning in screen texts through formalist, and genre analyses, making sense of how a filmmaker can use stylistic and narrative elements to signify and express meaning on the screen. Additionally, the students will critically examine how these films are produced within the political economy context, i.e. how can we read film as a reflection of, a commentary on, and a dialogue with the world we live in.
Learning Objectives
- To introduce concepts, themes, styles, and methodologies of analysis in the field of the film industry
- To apply critical skills to the analysis of past and present film works.
- To connect understanding of how to analyze film works with the political economy of context in which they were created in.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Perform formative analyses on screen works and identify concepts, styles, and theories of their stylistic and narrative elements.
- Perform genre analyses on film works.
- Describes the various modes of representation in documentary works
- Synthesize knowledge and skills of screen analysis and present outcomes in writing.
- Apply discipline knowledge and critical skills to the analysis of past and present films.
- Critically examine the history of filmmaking in connection to the country-specific and political economy context that they were created in.
Assessment Elements
- Control element 1Attendance of classes & activity during the course * 0,1
- Control element 2Formalist analysis of a scene * 0,3
- Control element 3Genre analysis * 0.3
- Control element 4Documentary analysis * 0,3
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 2nd module0.1 * Control element 1 + 0.3 * Control element 2 + 0.3 * Control element 3 + 0.3 * Control element 4
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Cinema studies : the key concepts, Hayward, S., 2013
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Nichols, B., Sloniowski, J., & Grant, B. K. (2014). Documenting the Documentary : Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video, New and Expanded Edition. Wayne State University Press.