Introduction to Screen Analysis (1009LHS)

As enthusiastic consumers - perhaps even as fans - of screen entertainments, we talk a lot about what film and television fictions mean. But how do they make those meanings? Students taking this course will have the opportunity to gain a new appreciation of a global range of film texts including some notable classics of cinema. But it does not offer a chronological history of cinema. Instead, the featured films have been chosen for study because they exemplify key aspects of film form and style. By engaging closely and critically with these films, and participating in weekly tutorials, students will gain a better understanding of screen storytelling, audiovisual communication and aesthetics, along with some basic historical and theoretical frameworks for thinking critically about screen entertainment media. This course is foundational to advanced historical and theoretical study of film and television media and is the prior assumed for Television Studies, Hollywood Cinema, and Australian Screen. Its OUA Course Code: CMM171; Prerequisites: NIL ; Co-requisites: NIL ; Incompatible: CMM17.

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