| |
STUDENTS CAN TAKE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
FILM AND SCREEN STUDIES -2 EL216, MUSIC AND FILM EL225 OR VISUAL WORLDS OF SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA SPA232
FILM AND SCREEN STUDIES EL216 - (Contact Media Studies department for full module descriptor)
1. Literature on screen
This module will examine cinematic adaptations of novels.
2. Music and the Moving Image
This module will explore the role of music in cinema and some of the key issues it raises.
3. Documentary Film.
From the earliest actualités to online documentaries, factual filmmaking has encompassed a heterogeneity of practices that are linked by their supposed special relationship with the reality they represent.
4. Romanticism and Realism: Fiction, Film and Irish Culture.
This module will examine some of the dominant images of Ireland in film and literature from the Celtic Twilight to the Celtic Tiger, and will place recent transformations of Irish culture in a wider historical context.
MUSIC AND FILM MU226
An exploration of some of the critical issues raised by the role of music in film. The course will offer an introduction to the rapidly emerging field of film music studies, providing students with the critical tools to address a number of key questions: what functions does music perform in film? How does it relate to image and dialogue? Do we actually notice music in the cinema? Students will apply these questions to case studies representative of a range of historical and cultural practices, from so-called silent film to the contemporary pop soundtrack.
VISUAL WORLDS OF SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA SPA232
An introduction to Spanish and Latin American visual culture and cinema.
|
FILM AND SCREEN STUDIES - 2
