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Overview

This topic will examine a body of work organised around a single filmmaker, for example a producer, director, actor, writer or artist in any form of audio-visual production. It will consider this work within its industrial and historical contexts, address key stylistic, generic or other aesthetic issues as well as … For more content click the Read More button below.

Aims

This topic aims to:

  • Provide a detailed knowledge of an individual filmmaker within the commercial and the social contexts which inform him or her
  • Introduce students to the critical and theoretical concepts used to analyse the work of an individual producer of screen-based media
  • Develop students' analytical skills and their capacity to research and apply their understanding to a range of practices in independent research or the production of screen media

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
1.
Evaluate and employ a critical and theoretical terminology used to analyse both individual works and the commercial/industrial contexts in which they are made
2.
Employ an understanding of screen history and aesthetics in creative practices
3.
Undertake supervised research and present an argument

Requisites information

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