Planet/Hollywood: Contemporary Global Cinema - AIC2809

Assessment 1: Other

Class debate on Hollywood’s historical dominance of the global film industry, challenges to that power, and possibilities for future developments. Includes tutor and peer feedback.

Class debate

Assessment 2: Oral presentation/assessment

Essay pitch: 10-minute individual oral presentation on proposed essay for Assessment 2.

Oral presentation

Assessment 1: In-Class Test

In-Class Test. Online open book.

Assessment 2: Written Assignment

Essay on contemporary cinema’s transnational/transcultural dimensions.

Written Assignment

<p>In this module you will examine contemporary cinema as a global media industry. It puts a particular emphasis on the processes of globalisation and circulation that allow film texts to become meaningful far outside the contexts in which they were made. While the global dominance of Hollywood is central to this, cultural influences, values and meanings flow in multiple directions. Attention will be given to key theories in film and global media studies, including theories of globalisation, cultural hybridity and exchange, national identities and imagined communities. By focusing not only on the films themselves, but on their production, distribution, promotion and reception, the module provides you with a detailed understanding of how and why cinema spreads around the globe, and the tension this cultural flow creates at a political, social, economic and cultural level.</p>

School of Arts and Humanities

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Media, Journalism and Film

AIC2809 - Planet/Hollywood: Contemporary Global Cinema

Planet/Hollywood: Contemporary Global Cinema

be able to show the ability to consider views other than their own, and exercise a degree of scholarly, independent and informed critical judgment in the analysis of cinema.

be able to contextualise analyses of practices of global film production and dissemination in the interconnectedness of national and transnational texts and contexts, and of the shifting configurations of filmmaking practices and systems around the world.

be able to collate, organise and deploy ideas and information on national cinemas and globalisation, in order to formulate arguments cogently and express them effectively in written and oral forms.

be able to demonstrate appreciation of different national and transnational cinemas and the ways in which they organise understandings.

be able to understand the dynamics of public and everyday discourses and popular cultural practices in the shaping and reception of film culture and film texts.

be able to show command of critical terminology and bibliographic skills appropriate to the study of film, media and globalisation.