Global Popular Cinema: Hollywood and Beyond - AIC2810

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. (equivalent to 250 words).

Other

Assessment 3: Portfolio (including examples)

Stock market journal: Virtual portfolio of fantasy entertainment stock market (such as hsx.com). and critical reflection on your trading decisions (equivalent to 500 words).

Portfolio

Assessment 2: Written plan

Essay pitch: Short oral presentation on your proposed essay (equivalent to 250 words).

Written plan

Assessment 1: In-Class Test

In-class Test: Two hour, closed book, unseen written in-class test.

In-Class Test.

Assessment 2: Written Assignment

An essay: with guidance from your tutor, you will devise your own question/topic on contemporary cinema’s transnational/transcultural dimensions.

Written Assignment

<p>In this module you will examine contemporary cinema as a global media industry, with 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 of course central to this, cultural influences, values and meanings flow in multiple directions. You will develop knowledge of 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 tensions 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

AIC2810 - Global Popular Cinema: Hollywood and Beyond

Global Popular Cinema: Hollywood and Beyond

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

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

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

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. 