Screen Media Research Methods

Course aim

To consolidate students’ knowledge of the key screen media research methods that relate to media arts production and the analysis of screen media cultures.

Course content

Students will consolidate their understanding of the different critical approaches involved in researching screen media and screen media cultures. This will include foundational methods such as issues of realism, semiotics and textual analysis, authorship and auteurism, ideology, gender and spectatorship, through to more contemporary theorisations of the screen that include effect and embodiment, sound studies, trans-media storytelling and cross-media convergence.

Students will also investigate the ways contemporary screen media (television, the internet, mobile technologies, computer games, gallery spaces) might extend and complicate traditional screen media research methods.

Students will study the key critical approaches involved in researching screen media and screen media cultures; from foundational approaches (semiotics, questions of 'realism', authorship and auteurism, ideological critique, gender and spectatorship) through to contemporary theorisations of the screen that include embodiment and effect, sound studies and media convergence.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Critical analysis, Major essay, Presentation

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
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