Film and Television Studies | BA (Hons)

An Introduction to Your Modules

† Some courses may offer optional modules. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by staff availability.

Analysing Moving Image Texts 2023-24FTV1004MLevel 42023-24This module offers an opportunity to study and apply a wide range of methods of textual analysis to film and television texts. Through group discussion and seminar exercises students can develop a fluency in these analytical methods. This is underpinned by a range of complementary subjects which act as an introduction to the critical approaches taken in year two of the programme.CoreFilm Practice 2023-24FTV1003MLevel 42023-24This module gives an introduction to writing and storytelling for screen based media production. Students will have the opportunity to develop their own creative writing techniques informed by critical concepts. Creative exercises and independent application culminate in the production of a short film script followed through to its realisation.CoreFilm Theory/Film Culture 2023-24FTV1010MLevel 42023-24This module provides an introduction to television studies and focuses on historic and current modes of address, distribution and reception forms and the social function of the medium. The module supports students in developing the skills to critically read television texts through a range of contexts including the economic, cultural and regulatory. An understanding of the historical development of the medium in Western contexts will enable students to critically locate televisions place in the present and future media landscape.CoreIntroduction to Film History 2023-24FTV1005MLevel 42023-24For more than a century, film has been understood variously as a technology, an art form, an industry, a means of communicating ideas, and as source of popular entertainment. In this module, students can consider the many ways in which films have been made and experienced, and have the opportunity to learn about different approaches to studying the history of film, looking at case studies from Hollywood, Europe, and beyond.CoreIntroduction to Television History 2023-24FTV1011MLevel 42023-24CoreTelevision Theory 2023-24FTV1009MLevel 42023-24This module provides an introduction to television studies and focuses on historic and current modes of address, distribution and reception forms and the social function of the medium. The module supports students in developing the skills to critically read television texts through a range of contexts including the economic, cultural and regulatory. An understanding of the historical development of the medium in Western contexts will enable students to critically locate televisions place in the present and future media landscape.CoreTV Studio Practice 2023-24FTV1002MLevel 42023-24This module aims to introduce practical techniques, using multi-camera studio methods. Basic production organisation, script and planning methods are developed alongside critical and analytical understanding of television as a medium.CoreAnalysing Film and Television as Industries 2024-25FTV2021MLevel 52024-25Students will have the opportunity to examine the political, commercial and cultural determinants behind the history, current organisation, and potential futures of the UK audiovisual production environment, including how it relates to the US and Europe.CoreScreening Gender: stars, genre and audiences 2024-25FTV2019MLevel 52024-25This module is concerned with the cultural construction of womanhood, the 'female' and notions of femininity: the economic and cultural value of the female film star to Hollywood, the development of female film genres or the feminization of certain genres, how debates about female identity inform models of spectatorship, with respect to both psychoanalysis and ethnography.CoreAdvanced Craft Skills - Screenwriting 2 2024-25FIL2015MLevel 52024-25This module is an advanced level module in the practical screenplay craft, building on skills acquired in Advanced Craft Skills - Screenwriting. Students will explore the conventions of the feature film screenplay, developing story and scenes for a feature script of their own.OptionalAdvanced Craft Skills - Screenwriting 2024-25FIL2006MLevel 52024-25This module is an advanced level module in the practical screenplay craft. Students will produce and pitch finished short screenplays and begin to explore the conventions of the feature film screenplay.OptionalAfrican Film 2024-25FTV2279MLevel 52024-25OptionalAuditory Culture 2024-25AUP2005MLevel 52024-25This module sets out to explore some of the ways in which we make, sense, and transform ourselves and our worlds through our sonic and auditory cultures. We will focus on a number of important phenomena in our consideration of sonic practices, ways of hearing and contemporary scholarship on the auditory dimensions of media. Designed to engage both Media Studies and Sound and Music Production students in their respective fields, we will move from discussions of sound in relation to the affective capacities of the body through discussion of audition in relation to space and place (focused through the concept of the soundscape). We will consider discussions of sound and technology and explore concepts and phenomena of noise and silence in sonic and musical experience. This module encourages collaborative research in the spirit of Student as Producer, the organizing principle of teaching and learning in the university.OptionalBritish Television Drama 2024-25FTV2024MLevel 52024-25OptionalChildrens Film and Television 2024-25FTV2275MLevel 52024-25This module investigates and analyses the debates about and developments in childrens film and television, largely in the UK but drawing on the USA, for elements of comparison informed by politics, ideology and economics.OptionalDocumentary Now 2024-25FTV2034MLevel 52024-25This module explores the history and theory of the documentary film. It will introduce students to media texts (films, video, broadcast television and digital platforms) that claim, in distinction to the cinema of fiction, to capture and re-present unmediated to one degree or another-- reality. Students on this module will be asked to consider, via close text analysis and an understanding of moving image history, the problematics of making such a claim. This will involve students investigating the nature of the documentary image that is: the relationship of the signifier to the thing signified. It will require them to determine the ethical implications of documentarys claim on the real for the filmmaker, the persons filmed and the spectators. It will engage them in debates about documentarys impact in the social sphere. The module will be organised around a series of case studies. Students will gain an understanding of media texts that have had a significant impact on society, knowledge of history and theory of documentary, and skills in close text reading and historical reception studies.OptionalEast Asian Cinemas 2024-25FTV2025MLevel 52024-25A guide to specific films and accompanying theoretical concepts. Key films provide a platform for debating the political, institutional and cultural context of individual cinemas and regions in an increasingly globalised industry where audiences and producers are exposed to a variety of film styles. Critical engagement and debate are encouraged within the broader structure of World Cinema, alongside cultural and globalisation studies.OptionalEnglish for Academic Purposes (media) 2024-25FTV2032MLevel 52024-25This module aims to support students understanding and use of English language in the context of the media, and thereby enhance their ability to meet the demands of academic study at the University of Lincoln.OptionalEuropean Cinema Now 2024-25FTV2283MLevel 52024-25OptionalFashioning Film 2024-25FTV2278MLevel 52024-25OptionalFilm and Television Study Period Abroad (Erasmus) 2024-25FTV2028MLevel 52024-25The Klagenfurt Erasmus Exchange Programme is an optional module of study for the award of the BA Film & Television degree. As part of the three-year course, some students may study for the duration of Term 1 of Level 2 at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. The target modules of study include areas of practical and theoretical studies comparable with those of Level 2 study for the Film & Television award at Lincoln. During the term abroad, Lincoln students will be based in the Institute of Media and Communication Studies and will share classes and modules of study with peers from Austria and other European countries. Not only will students be living and socialising in another culture, providing opportunities to study their respective countries, they will also have an opportunity to engage, free-of-charge, in an intensive German-language module for three weeks before term begins (although academic and practice teaching and learning will be in the medium of English for Lincoln exchange students, except in rare instances when a student may be fluent in German).OptionalFilm and Television Study Period Abroad (USA) 2024-25FTV2029MLevel 52024-25The Minnesota State University Moorhead USA Exchange Programme is an optional module for the award of the BA Film and Television Degree. As part of the three-year course, some students may study for the duration of Term 1 of level 2 at Minnesota State University Moorhead USA. The target units of study include areas of practical and theoretical studies comparable with those of Level 2 study for the Film and Television Award at Lincoln. During the semester abroad, students will share classes and units of study with local students. Not only will students be living and socialising in another 'culture' providing opportunities to study their respective countries, they may also have an opportunity to examine USA media industry practice through optional Internships for exchange students. The Moorhead-Fargo twin cities also offer practical opportunities for students to engage with USA production companies including, Fox, ABC and Prairie Public TV (PBS), all of whom have local bases.OptionalFilm Production Project 2024-25TBC03Level 52024-25OptionalFilm, Television and Creative Vision 2024-25MED2039MLevel 52024-25OptionalGenre and Film 2024-25FTV2027MLevel 52024-25OptionalGlobalisation and Contemporary Culture 2024-25MED2036MLevel 52024-25OptionalHistory in/on Media 2024-25FTV2284MLevel 52024-25OptionalHollywood Musical 2024-25FTV2274MLevel 52024-25This module will investigate the Hollywood musical as one of Hollywoods most popular and important film genres, from its beginnings in the early sound era to the integrated musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, from critically acclaimed box office successes such as West Side Story (1961) and cultural phenomena such as Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Dirty Dancing (1987) to more recent musicals such as Moulin Rouge! (2001), Dreamgirls (2006), La La Land (2016), and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018). A close study of a number of significant films and associated scholarly literature will support discussion of structural, stylistic and thematic issues. Stardom and the function of the star performance will be considered and ethnicity, race, sexuality, class and gender as constructed through the musical will be analysed.OptionalHorror in Popular Culture 2024-25FTV2282MLevel 52024-25The module aims to introduce you to a range of conceptual and theoretical approaches to the study of horror in popular culture. It explores the history of the genre and selected subgenres as well as contemporary manifestations, both supernatural, and realist horror. The module looks at the horror genre in terms of various social, cultural and national contexts. Students can study psychoanalytical approaches to these fictions as well as approaches such as affect theory which attempt to go beyond psychoanalysis. Through lectures, screenings and discussions, students are encouraged to apply these approaches to the analysis of selected media texts and subgenres.OptionalInnovations in Television Studio Practice 2024-25MED2279MLevel 52024-25This module will introduce students to advanced studio practice, by providing a dynamic and creative environment for students to explore the innovative capacity of the studio space, whilst also drawing on key critical and theoretical concepts that help to expand their understanding and appreciation of what makes such innovative studio production tick. The module aims to challenge convention and find new ways of storytelling within the creative laboratory of the television studio.OptionalMedia and War 2024-25MED2057MLevel 52024-25OptionalMedia, Controversy and Moral Panic 2024-25HST2069MLevel 52024-25This module explores the history of media controversy and moral panic during the twentieth century. It is designed to introduce students to media texts (especially films and television programmes) that have sparked debate and extreme differences of opinion among audiences in Britain and America. Students will be expected to engage with a range of films, television programmes and primary source material, which may include newspapers and television news broadcasts from the Media Archive of Central England (MACE).OptionalPisek Erasmus Shell Placement Module 2024-25FTV2030MLevel 52024-25OptionalPublic Service Broadcasting 2024-25MED2032MLevel 52024-25OptionalRealism in Narrative Fiction 2024-25FTV2280MLevel 52024-25This module aims to develop an understanding of the complex problem of realism in film and media studies as it relates to fictional narrative forms. Students will have the opportunity to engage with academic debates around realist texts and examine these in relation to historical, contemporary and potential examples.OptionalRepresenting Difference 2024-25MED2037MLevel 52024-25OptionalTelevision and Screen Entertainment 2024-25FTV2281MLevel 52024-25Through a critical examination of contemporary factual television and online culture, this module aims to show that this can be understood as having been dramatically reconfigured in recent years by socio-political and commercial pressures and their associated entertainment values and changing discourses of selfhood.OptionalTransformations in Television Consumption 2024-25TBC02Level 52024-25OptionalVisualizing the 21st Century 2024-25MDS2001MLevel 52024-25In the 21st century we no longer believe that a single unified world can be visualized from a privileged position. Any sense of distance from the world has collapsed. We are conscious of living in a time of continual change and transformation as opposed to a state of equilibrium. After all, the early 21st century has been marked by rising urbanism, the movements of people, the crisis of global warming, the dominance of ever more complex logistical networks, the emergence of new cultures of speed, experiments with new modes of warfare, etc. This is a confusing situation simultaneously liberating, exciting, anarchic and dangerous. We are traversed and overwhelmed by these affective forces. This innovative module, in which students collaborate to produce film essays, presents an opportunity to reassess aesthetic theories and practices our modes of visualizing - in order to confront the conditions of the present.OptionalDissertation 2025-26FTV3023MLevel 62025-26A 10,000-word dissertation is the culmination of the student's undergraduate investigation into the structures and debates surrounding cultural production and takes the form of an extended essay. Regular support and supervision ensures that the chosen subject facilitates involvement with issues relevant to contemporary media practice.CoreAdaptation: Generic Transformation 2025-26MCM3069MLevel 62025-26OptionalAnimated Worlds 2025-26FTV3021MLevel 62025-26Animation is a malleable form: it can portray bodies in blurred motion and extraordinary feats, frame by frame. Animation is limitless and all pervasive, transcending genres, distorting genders and having the power to dissect stereotypes. Gender can be constructed and deconstructed, narratives can transcend the confines that might limit live action cinema. The idea of animation as a genre of film continues to be contested, it demands its own medium and a plethora of genres within that medium. With its ability to inform and revolutionise, animation is ever-evolving and can educate, but also perpetuate inequalities of power through its depictions of difference, disability and the stigmas attached to such representations. Animation bends and contorts, it ventures far beyond the confines of childrens entertainment into the realms of horror, documentary, pornography, etc. It gives us astonishing insights into identity through its figuration, configuration and reconfiguration of the body, otherness, erasure, power and punishment. This module will introduce students to theories of identity, difference, diaspora, the body and the disabled self and apply these to key animation texts and directors, through a series of lectures and seminars. Learners will debate concepts, characters and ideas about difference throughout this module, using identity theories as markers of understanding, and produce an essay that is enriched by what they have discovered.OptionalArt Cinemas 2025-26FTV3020MLevel 62025-26OptionalBio-Media 2025-26MDS3007MLevel 62025-26This module provides an opportunity to explore the entanglements of human bodies with media devices and processes. With and through media technologies, we transform the body and our understanding of bodily life. Today, this has become so obvious that the distinction between ourselves, machines and other species has been rendered problematic. Some insist on the need to defend the body against the encroachment of media and cybernetic systems. But perhaps the body has always already been mediated? Seizing upon this problematic, theorists, artists and media practitioners have converged upon a preoccupation with speculation upon the present and future condition of the mediatized human body.OptionalDefining Quality Television 2025-26FTV3027MLevel 62025-26OptionalExploitation Cinema 2025-26FTV3009MLevel 62025-26Examines the cultural significance of so-called exploitation films, which can reveal (and revel in) themes, images and narratives suppressed from the mainstream, dealing with lurid, scandalous subjects in a seemingly excessive, gratuitous manner. Some theorists argue that perceived excess is a foundation for developing new critical methods, providing a fascinating alternative to approaches more comfortably contained within classical systems.OptionalExploring the Title Sequence 2025-26FTV3025MLevel 62025-26OptionalFilm and Society 2025-26FTV3015MLevel 62025-26OptionalFilm and Television Under Pressure 2025-26FTV3007MLevel 62025-26OptionalHeroes and Villains in Film 2025-26FTV3017MLevel 62025-26OptionalHollywood cinema in the 1980s 2025-26FTV3019MLevel 62025-26Cinema is an integral part of our culture and tells us about society; like any cultural product, cinema does not exist in a vacuum. It communicates ideas, value systems and cultural beliefs, desires, dreams, anxieties, fears and needs of a given society at a given time, and it does so through different constructions of gender, sexualities, whiteness, ethnicity, race, age, social class and cultures. Taking into account a broad range of films and genres (from rom-com, drama and erotic thriller, to animation, musical, neo-noir, action and sci-fi), as well as a variety of theoretical approaches from (but not limited to) feminist film theory, philosophy, post-feminism, psychoanalysis, stardom and cultural studies; and combining textual analysis with background reading, this module will examine and critically evaluate a range of Hollywood films produced and released in the 1980s addressing the relations between their textual form and their cultural context.OptionalIndependent Practice 2025-26FTV3002MLevel 62025-26One advanced concept-led project or project portfolio using technologies centred upon Single Camera, Multi Camera or Scriptwriting; an opportunity to produce practical work to an advanced level of creativity and to undertake interdisciplinary production with students on other School courses as appropriate.OptionalIndustry Script Analysis 2025-26FTV3026MLevel 62025-26OptionalJournalists on the Screen 2025-26JOU3015MLevel 62025-26The purpose of this module is to examine and critically compare the different representations of journalists to be found in film and assess the relation between these portrayals and continuing moral and political issues faced by the profession. The module expects students to study movies in which journalists are portrayed as leading characters.OptionalLiterature, Film and Gender 2025-26ENL3005MLevel 62025-26OptionalMACE Internship - 24 weeks 2025-26FTV3022MLevel 62025-26The course provides an opportunity for up to two students to undertake a work placement in MACE. The placement not only gives the student invaluable working experience but will concentrate on an agreed piece of practical archive work through which to develop a deeper critical awareness of the role and impact of a moving image archive. The culmination of the placement will be a written critical assessment of the placement and of the specific project undertaken.OptionalMACE Internship 12 Weeks B 2025-26FTV3024MLevel 62025-26OptionalMACE Internship 2025-26FTV3018MLevel 62025-26OptionalMad Pictures 2025-26FTV3288MLevel 62025-26Moving images have explored madness, the real, nightmares and fantasy since the beginning of cinema. Mad scientists from Caligari and Rotwang through Dr Gogol to Rick Sanchez have wreaked havoc, reconfigured the human body, opened portals into new dimensions and ushered in devastating social change. Films have told stories of men driving women into insanity in pursuit of power, fame and glory. Bodies that have challenged arbitrary norms or misfit with normative spatial arrangements have been represented as psychotic killers, extra-terrestrial monsters and subhuman beasts. This module explores representations of madness in cinema to explore attitudes to mental health via a mix of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks in a variety of national cinema settings and in a range of genres and registers, from classical Hollywood horror through European auteur cinema to digitally distributed transnational quality long form drama.OptionalMedia Archaeologies 2025-26MDS3009MLevel 62025-26When studying contemporary media, the rapid pace of technological change can pose a problem for those of us hoping to find some clarity or surety within a dense and often overwhelming media landscape. To study the media of today effectively, therefore, we must also look to the media of the past. In this module, we will accordingly unearth various examples of forgotten, neglected, or underappreciated pre-twentieth century media, discovering how concepts, problems, and debates that still define the discourse surrounding media design and usage today have their origins in much older technological systems, whilst simultaneously challenging the assumptions that have underpinned traditional histories of media.OptionalPopular Fiction Across Media 2025-26MCM3001MLevel 62025-26OptionalQueer Film and Television 2025-26FTV3287MLevel 62025-26Portrayals of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lives on screen are under increasing scrutiny from audiences, activists and media scholars. But, for much of the history of film and television, non-normative sexual and gender identities have been marginalised or hidden. This module examines the history of queer representations in screen culture from the era of silent films to the present day. Students will have the opportunity to work with examples from a range of national contexts, including (but not limited to) Britain and America, as well as engaging with influential scholarship in queer theory and the history of gender and sexuality.OptionalRepresenting the Unrepresentable 2025-26FTV3010MLevel 62025-26OptionalScience Fiction in Film and Television 2025-26FTV3005MLevel 62025-26This module analyses the range and diversity of a genre encompassing many highly popular texts. Metaphor and allegory are explored to understand how science fiction has been appreciated and has developed from cult to mainstream acceptance and popularity. Innovation and cross-fertilisation of generic forms are also be considered.OptionalScreenwriting Project 2025-26FTV3030MLevel 62025-26OptionalTelevision Crime Drama 2025-26FTV3013MLevel 62025-26OptionalThe New Hollywood 1967 - 1983: from The Graduate to Star Wars and beyond... 2025-26FTV3012MLevel 62025-26This module surveys and assesses a period that represents a break with a range of ideological, aesthetic and commercial traditions together with a process of retrenchment and recuperation. Post-classical Hollywood saw both films and the industry experience ideological and socio-cultural upheaval, demonstrated through cinematic modes of representation, industrial re-structuring and artistic transformations.OptionalWorking Class (Re)Presentations 2025-26FTV3029MLevel 62025-26Optional

An Introduction to Your Modules

Analysing Moving Image Texts 2022-23FTV1004MLevel 42022-23This module offers an opportunity to study and apply a wide range of methods of textual analysis to film and television texts. Through group discussion and seminar exercises students can develop a fluency in these analytical methods. This is underpinned by a range of complementary subjects which act as an introduction to the critical approaches taken in year two of the programme.CoreFilm Practice 2022-23FTV1003MLevel 42022-23This module gives an introduction to writing and storytelling for screen based media production. Students will have the opportunity to develop their own creative writing techniques informed by critical concepts. Creative exercises and independent application culminate in the production of a short film script followed through to its realisation.CoreFilm Theory/Film Culture 2022-23FTV1010MLevel 42022-23This module provides an introduction to television studies and focuses on historic and current modes of address, distribution and reception forms and the social function of the medium. The module supports students in developing the skills to critically read television texts through a range of contexts including the economic, cultural and regulatory. An understanding of the historical development of the medium in Western contexts will enable students to critically locate televisions place in the present and future media landscape.CoreIntroduction to Film History 2022-23FTV1005MLevel 42022-23For more than a century, film has been understood variously as a technology, an art form, an industry, a means of communicating ideas, and as source of popular entertainment. In this module, students can consider the many ways in which films have been made and experienced, and have the opportunity to learn about different approaches to studying the history of film, looking at case studies from Hollywood, Europe, and beyond.CoreIntroduction to Television History 2022-23FTV1011MLevel 42022-23CoreTelevision Theory 2022-23FTV1009MLevel 42022-23This module provides an introduction to television studies and focuses on historic and current modes of address, distribution and reception forms and the social function of the medium. The module supports students in developing the skills to critically read television texts through a range of contexts including the economic, cultural and regulatory. An understanding of the historical development of the medium in Western contexts will enable students to critically locate televisions place in the present and future media landscape.CoreTV Studio Practice 2022-23FTV1002MLevel 42022-23This module aims to introduce practical techniques, using multi-camera studio methods. Basic production organisation, script and planning methods are developed alongside critical and analytical understanding of television as a medium.CoreAnalysing Film and Television as Industries 2023-24FTV2021MLevel 52023-24Students will have the opportunity to examine the political, commercial and cultural determinants behind the history, current organisation, and potential futures of the UK audiovisual production environment, including how it relates to the US and Europe.CoreScreening Gender: stars, genre and audiences 2023-24FTV2019MLevel 52023-24This module is concerned with the cultural construction of womanhood, the 'female' and notions of femininity: the economic and cultural value of the female film star to Hollywood, the development of female film genres or the feminization of certain genres, how debates about female identity inform models of spectatorship, with respect to both psychoanalysis and ethnography.CoreAdvanced Craft Skills - Screenwriting 2 2023-24FIL2015MLevel 52023-24This module is an advanced level module in the practical screenplay craft, building on skills acquired in Advanced Craft Skills - Screenwriting. Students will explore the conventions of the feature film screenplay, developing story and scenes for a feature script of their own.OptionalAdvanced Craft Skills - Screenwriting 2023-24FIL2006MLevel 52023-24This module is an advanced level module in the practical screenplay craft. Students will produce and pitch finished short screenplays and begin to explore the conventions of the feature film screenplay.OptionalAfrican Film 2023-24FTV2279MLevel 52023-24OptionalAuditory Culture 2023-24AUP2005MLevel 52023-24This module sets out to explore some of the ways in which we make, sense, and transform ourselves and our worlds through our sonic and auditory cultures. We will focus on a number of important phenomena in our consideration of sonic practices, ways of hearing and contemporary scholarship on the auditory dimensions of media. Designed to engage both Media Studies and Sound and Music Production students in their respective fields, we will move from discussions of sound in relation to the affective capacities of the body through discussion of audition in relation to space and place (focused through the concept of the soundscape). We will consider discussions of sound and technology and explore concepts and phenomena of noise and silence in sonic and musical experience. This module encourages collaborative research in the spirit of Student as Producer, the organizing principle of teaching and learning in the university.OptionalBritish Television Drama 2023-24FTV2024MLevel 52023-24OptionalChildrens Film and Television 2023-24FTV2275MLevel 52023-24This module investigates and analyses the debates about and developments in childrens film and television, largely in the UK but drawing on the USA, for elements of comparison informed by politics, ideology and economics.OptionalDocumentary Now 2023-24FTV2034MLevel 52023-24This module explores the history and theory of the documentary film. It will introduce students to media texts (films, video, broadcast television and digital platforms) that claim, in distinction to the cinema of fiction, to capture and re-present unmediated to one degree or another-- reality. Students on this module will be asked to consider, via close text analysis and an understanding of moving image history, the problematics of making such a claim. This will involve students investigating the nature of the documentary image that is: the relationship of the signifier to the thing signified. It will require them to determine the ethical implications of documentarys claim on the real for the filmmaker, the persons filmed and the spectators. It will engage them in debates about documentarys impact in the social sphere. The module will be organised around a series of case studies. Students will gain an understanding of media texts that have had a significant impact on society, knowledge of history and theory of documentary, and skills in close text reading and historical reception studies.OptionalEast Asian Cinemas 2023-24FTV2025MLevel 52023-24A guide to specific films and accompanying theoretical concepts. Key films provide a platform for debating the political, institutional and cultural context of individual cinemas and regions in an increasingly globalised industry where audiences and producers are exposed to a variety of film styles. Critical engagement and debate are encouraged within the broader structure of World Cinema, alongside cultural and globalisation studies.OptionalEnglish for Academic Purposes (media) 2023-24FTV2032MLevel 52023-24This module aims to support students understanding and use of English language in the context of the media, and thereby enhance their ability to meet the demands of academic study at the University of Lincoln.OptionalEuropean Cinema Now 2023-24FTV2283MLevel 52023-24OptionalFashioning Film 2023-24FTV2278MLevel 52023-24OptionalFilm and Television Study Period Abroad (Erasmus) 2023-24FTV2028MLevel 52023-24The Klagenfurt Erasmus Exchange Programme is an optional module of study for the award of the BA Film & Television degree. As part of the three-year course, some students may study for the duration of Term 1 of Level 2 at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. The target modules of study include areas of practical and theoretical studies comparable with those of Level 2 study for the Film & Television award at Lincoln. During the term abroad, Lincoln students will be based in the Institute of Media and Communication Studies and will share classes and modules of study with peers from Austria and other European countries. Not only will students be living and socialising in another culture, providing opportunities to study their respective countries, they will also have an opportunity to engage, free-of-charge, in an intensive German-language module for three weeks before term begins (although academic and practice teaching and learning will be in the medium of English for Lincoln exchange students, except in rare instances when a student may be fluent in German).OptionalFilm and Television Study Period Abroad (USA) 2023-24FTV2029MLevel 52023-24The Minnesota State University Moorhead USA Exchange Programme is an optional module for the award of the BA Film and Television Degree. As part of the three-year course, some students may study for the duration of Term 1 of level 2 at Minnesota State University Moorhead USA. The target units of study include areas of practical and theoretical studies comparable with those of Level 2 study for the Film and Television Award at Lincoln. During the semester abroad, students will share classes and units of study with local students. Not only will students be living and socialising in another 'culture' providing opportunities to study their respective countries, they may also have an opportunity to examine USA media industry practice through optional Internships for exchange students. The Moorhead-Fargo twin cities also offer practical opportunities for students to engage with USA production companies including, Fox, ABC and Prairie Public TV (PBS), all of whom have local bases.OptionalFilm Production Project 2023-24TBC03Level 52023-24OptionalFilm, Television and Creative Vision 2023-24MED2039MLevel 52023-24OptionalGenre and Film 2023-24FTV2027MLevel 52023-24OptionalGlobalisation and Contemporary Culture 2023-24MED2036MLevel 52023-24OptionalHistory in/on Media 2023-24FTV2284MLevel 52023-24OptionalHollywood Musical 2023-24FTV2274MLevel 52023-24This module will investigate the Hollywood musical as one of Hollywoods most popular and important film genres, from its beginnings in the early sound era to the integrated musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, from critically acclaimed box office successes such as West Side Story (1961) and cultural phenomena such as Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Dirty Dancing (1987) to more recent musicals such as Moulin Rouge! (2001), Dreamgirls (2006), La La Land (2016), and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018). A close study of a number of significant films and associated scholarly literature will support discussion of structural, stylistic and thematic issues. Stardom and the function of the star performance will be considered and ethnicity, race, sexuality, class and gender as constructed through the musical will be analysed.OptionalHorror in Popular Culture 2023-24FTV2282MLevel 52023-24The module aims to introduce you to a range of conceptual and theoretical approaches to the study of horror in popular culture. It explores the history of the genre and selected subgenres as well as contemporary manifestations, both supernatural, and realist horror. The module looks at the horror genre in terms of various social, cultural and national contexts. Students can study psychoanalytical approaches to these fictions as well as approaches such as affect theory which attempt to go beyond psychoanalysis. Through lectures, screenings and discussions, students are encouraged to apply these approaches to the analysis of selected media texts and subgenres.OptionalInnovations in Television Studio Practice 2023-24MED2279MLevel 52023-24This module will introduce students to advanced studio practice, by providing a dynamic and creative environment for students to explore the innovative capacity of the studio space, whilst also drawing on key critical and theoretical concepts that help to expand their understanding and appreciation of what makes such innovative studio production tick. The module aims to challenge convention and find new ways of storytelling within the creative laboratory of the television studio.OptionalMedia and War 2023-24MED2057MLevel 52023-24OptionalMedia, Controversy and Moral Panic 2023-24HST2069MLevel 52023-24This module explores the history of media controversy and moral panic during the twentieth century. It is designed to introduce students to media texts (especially films and television programmes) that have sparked debate and extreme differences of opinion among audiences in Britain and America. Students will be expected to engage with a range of films, television programmes and primary source material, which may include newspapers and television news broadcasts from the Media Archive of Central England (MACE).OptionalPisek Erasmus Shell Placement Module 2023-24FTV2030MLevel 52023-24OptionalPublic Service Broadcasting 2023-24MED2032MLevel 52023-24OptionalRealism in Narrative Fiction 2023-24FTV2280MLevel 52023-24This module aims to develop an understanding of the complex problem of realism in film and media studies as it relates to fictional narrative forms. Students will have the opportunity to engage with academic debates around realist texts and examine these in relation to historical, contemporary and potential examples.OptionalRepresenting Difference 2023-24MED2037MLevel 52023-24OptionalTelevision and Screen Entertainment 2023-24FTV2281MLevel 52023-24Through a critical examination of contemporary factual television and online culture, this module aims to show that this can be understood as having been dramatically reconfigured in recent years by socio-political and commercial pressures and their associated entertainment values and changing discourses of selfhood.OptionalTransformations in Television Consumption 2023-24TBC02Level 52023-24OptionalVisualizing the 21st Century 2023-24MDS2001MLevel 52023-24In the 21st century we no longer believe that a single unified world can be visualized from a privileged position. Any sense of distance from the world has collapsed. We are conscious of living in a time of continual change and transformation as opposed to a state of equilibrium. After all, the early 21st century has been marked by rising urbanism, the movements of people, the crisis of global warming, the dominance of ever more complex logistical networks, the emergence of new cultures of speed, experiments with new modes of warfare, etc. This is a confusing situation simultaneously liberating, exciting, anarchic and dangerous. We are traversed and overwhelmed by these affective forces. This innovative module, in which students collaborate to produce film essays, presents an opportunity to reassess aesthetic theories and practices our modes of visualizing - in order to confront the conditions of the present.OptionalDissertation 2024-25FTV3023MLevel 62024-25A 10,000-word dissertation is the culmination of the student's undergraduate investigation into the structures and debates surrounding cultural production and takes the form of an extended essay. Regular support and supervision ensures that the chosen subject facilitates involvement with issues relevant to contemporary media practice.CoreAdaptation: Generic Transformation 2024-25MCM3069MLevel 62024-25OptionalAnimated Worlds 2024-25FTV3021MLevel 62024-25Animation is a malleable form: it can portray bodies in blurred motion and extraordinary feats, frame by frame. Animation is limitless and all pervasive, transcending genres, distorting genders and having the power to dissect stereotypes. Gender can be constructed and deconstructed, narratives can transcend the confines that might limit live action cinema. The idea of animation as a genre of film continues to be contested, it demands its own medium and a plethora of genres within that medium. With its ability to inform and revolutionise, animation is ever-evolving and can educate, but also perpetuate inequalities of power through its depictions of difference, disability and the stigmas attached to such representations. Animation bends and contorts, it ventures far beyond the confines of childrens entertainment into the realms of horror, documentary, pornography, etc. It gives us astonishing insights into identity through its figuration, configuration and reconfiguration of the body, otherness, erasure, power and punishment. This module will introduce students to theories of identity, difference, diaspora, the body and the disabled self and apply these to key animation texts and directors, through a series of lectures and seminars. Learners will debate concepts, characters and ideas about difference throughout this module, using identity theories as markers of understanding, and produce an essay that is enriched by what they have discovered.OptionalArt Cinemas 2024-25FTV3020MLevel 62024-25OptionalBio-Media 2024-25MDS3007MLevel 62024-25This module provides an opportunity to explore the entanglements of human bodies with media devices and processes. With and through media technologies, we transform the body and our understanding of bodily life. Today, this has become so obvious that the distinction between ourselves, machines and other species has been rendered problematic. Some insist on the need to defend the body against the encroachment of media and cybernetic systems. But perhaps the body has always already been mediated? Seizing upon this problematic, theorists, artists and media practitioners have converged upon a preoccupation with speculation upon the present and future condition of the mediatized human body.OptionalDefining Quality Television 2024-25FTV3027MLevel 62024-25OptionalExploitation Cinema 2024-25FTV3009MLevel 62024-25Examines the cultural significance of so-called exploitation films, which can reveal (and revel in) themes, images and narratives suppressed from the mainstream, dealing with lurid, scandalous subjects in a seemingly excessive, gratuitous manner. Some theorists argue that perceived excess is a foundation for developing new critical methods, providing a fascinating alternative to approaches more comfortably contained within classical systems.OptionalExploring the Title Sequence 2024-25FTV3025MLevel 62024-25OptionalFilm and Society 2024-25FTV3015MLevel 62024-25OptionalFilm and Television Under Pressure 2024-25FTV3007MLevel 62024-25OptionalHeroes and Villains in Film 2024-25FTV3017MLevel 62024-25OptionalHollywood cinema in the 1980s 2024-25FTV3019MLevel 62024-25Cinema is an integral part of our culture and tells us about society; like any cultural product, cinema does not exist in a vacuum. It communicates ideas, value systems and cultural beliefs, desires, dreams, anxieties, fears and needs of a given society at a given time, and it does so through different constructions of gender, sexualities, whiteness, ethnicity, race, age, social class and cultures. Taking into account a broad range of films and genres (from rom-com, drama and erotic thriller, to animation, musical, neo-noir, action and sci-fi), as well as a variety of theoretical approaches from (but not limited to) feminist film theory, philosophy, post-feminism, psychoanalysis, stardom and cultural studies; and combining textual analysis with background reading, this module will examine and critically evaluate a range of Hollywood films produced and released in the 1980s addressing the relations between their textual form and their cultural context.OptionalIndependent Practice 2024-25FTV3002MLevel 62024-25One advanced concept-led project or project portfolio using technologies centred upon Single Camera, Multi Camera or Scriptwriting; an opportunity to produce practical work to an advanced level of creativity and to undertake interdisciplinary production with students on other School courses as appropriate.OptionalIndustry Script Analysis 2024-25FTV3026MLevel 62024-25OptionalJournalists on the Screen 2024-25JOU3015MLevel 62024-25The purpose of this module is to examine and critically compare the different representations of journalists to be found in film and assess the relation between these portrayals and continuing moral and political issues faced by the profession. The module expects students to study movies in which journalists are portrayed as leading characters.OptionalLiterature, Film and Gender 2024-25ENL3005MLevel 62024-25OptionalMACE Internship - 24 weeks 2024-25FTV3022MLevel 62024-25The course provides an opportunity for up to two students to undertake a work placement in MACE. The placement not only gives the student invaluable working experience but will concentrate on an agreed piece of practical archive work through which to develop a deeper critical awareness of the role and impact of a moving image archive. The culmination of the placement will be a written critical assessment of the placement and of the specific project undertaken.OptionalMACE Internship 12 Weeks B 2024-25FTV3024MLevel 62024-25OptionalMACE Internship 2024-25FTV3018MLevel 62024-25OptionalMad Pictures 2024-25FTV3288MLevel 62024-25Moving images have explored madness, the real, nightmares and fantasy since the beginning of cinema. Mad scientists from Caligari and Rotwang through Dr Gogol to Rick Sanchez have wreaked havoc, reconfigured the human body, opened portals into new dimensions and ushered in devastating social change. Films have told stories of men driving women into insanity in pursuit of power, fame and glory. Bodies that have challenged arbitrary norms or misfit with normative spatial arrangements have been represented as psychotic killers, extra-terrestrial monsters and subhuman beasts. This module explores representations of madness in cinema to explore attitudes to mental health via a mix of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks in a variety of national cinema settings and in a range of genres and registers, from classical Hollywood horror through European auteur cinema to digitally distributed transnational quality long form drama.OptionalMedia Archaeologies 2024-25MDS3009MLevel 62024-25When studying contemporary media, the rapid pace of technological change can pose a problem for those of us hoping to find some clarity or surety within a dense and often overwhelming media landscape. To study the media of today effectively, therefore, we must also look to the media of the past. In this module, we will accordingly unearth various examples of forgotten, neglected, or underappreciated pre-twentieth century media, discovering how concepts, problems, and debates that still define the discourse surrounding media design and usage today have their origins in much older technological systems, whilst simultaneously challenging the assumptions that have underpinned traditional histories of media.OptionalPopular Fiction Across Media 2024-25MCM3001MLevel 62024-25OptionalQueer Film and Television 2024-25FTV3287MLevel 62024-25Portrayals of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lives on screen are under increasing scrutiny from audiences, activists and media scholars. But, for much of the history of film and television, non-normative sexual and gender identities have been marginalised or hidden. This module examines the history of queer representations in screen culture from the era of silent films to the present day. Students will have the opportunity to work with examples from a range of national contexts, including (but not limited to) Britain and America, as well as engaging with influential scholarship in queer theory and the history of gender and sexuality.OptionalRepresenting the Unrepresentable 2024-25FTV3010MLevel 62024-25OptionalScience Fiction in Film and Television 2024-25FTV3005MLevel 62024-25This module analyses the range and diversity of a genre encompassing many highly popular texts. Metaphor and allegory are explored to understand how science fiction has been appreciated and has developed from cult to mainstream acceptance and popularity. Innovation and cross-fertilisation of generic forms are also be considered.OptionalScreenwriting Project 2024-25FTV3030MLevel 62024-25OptionalTelevision Crime Drama 2024-25FTV3013MLevel 62024-25OptionalThe New Hollywood 1967 - 1983: from The Graduate to Star Wars and beyond... 2024-25FTV3012MLevel 62024-25This module surveys and assesses a period that represents a break with a range of ideological, aesthetic and commercial traditions together with a process of retrenchment and recuperation. Post-classical Hollywood saw both films and the industry experience ideological and socio-cultural upheaval, demonstrated through cinematic modes of representation, industrial re-structuring and artistic transformations.OptionalWorking Class (Re)Presentations 2024-25FTV3029MLevel 62024-25Optional

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