LT336-6-FY-CO:
Cultural Ideology and Film
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2023/24
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 6
Inactive
Thursday 05 October 2023
Friday 28 June 2024
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09 February 2021
Requisites for this module
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This module explores the relationship between film and ideology, analyzing present-day films from a number of theoretical (Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, queer, psychoanalytical) and historical perspectives. It aims to give an understanding of cinema as an ideological medium, which can both sustain and interrogate cultural norms and desires.
The syllabus introduces students to notions of ideology and ideology critique, examining how particular films promote, shape and subvert dominant political ideologies. We look at how a diverse selection of films have tackled pressing ideological issues of recent times – including the Iraq war, pandemics, surveillance society, immigration, artificial intelligence and transgender.
The aims of the module are:
1. To investigate, understand and critically appraise key concepts and issues pertaining to cinema as an ideological medium.
2. To promote students' ability to analyse films, demonstrating awareness of relevant cultural, historical and industrial contexts.
3. To research aspects of ideology on our screens and situate issues of representation within the wider structures of the entertainment industry.
4. To develop students' oral and written communication skills, including the ability to use appropriate conventions of scholarly argument
5. To develop students' knowledge and critical understanding of cultural ideology and film
By the end of the module, students should have gained:
1. Knowledge of key concepts and issues pertaining to cinema as an ideological medium.
2. An ability to undertake close film analysis, demonstrating awareness of relevant cultural, historical and industrial contexts.
3. An ability to research aspects of ideology on our screens and situate issues of representation within the wider structures of the entertainment industry.
4. An ability to clearly communicate knowledge and understanding of cultural ideology and film, in both oral and written work, using the appropriate conventions of scholarly argument.
No additional information available.
Anticipated teaching delivery for 2020-21: Weekly 2 hours viewing/listening time plus 2 hour seminar (certain weeks divided into 1 hour lecture and 1 hour class)
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Prof Shohini Chaudhuri, email: schaudh@essex.ac.uk.
Prof Shohini Chaudhuri
LiFTS General Office - email liftstt@essex.ac.uk.
Telephone 01206 872626
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No external examiner information available for this module.
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Of 140 hours, 80 (57.1%) hours available to students:
60 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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