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Film Culture

Course code

BFR7003.FK

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Filmikultuur

Course title in English

Film Culture

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

The course explores film culture via lectures about film (study’s) history and via seminars focusing on the key topics of Film Studies. The course offers an introduction to cinema culture and history and to Film Studies.

Brief description of the course

The course offers a short overview of cinema history and contemporary trends and via seminars analyses key concepts in Film Studies, such as auteur theory, genre, ideology, gender, postmodernism, reception studies, and new cinema history. The course consists of lectures and seminars. For each seminar the students will have read two compulsory articles on the given week’s topic and watched a film from the course curricula. In each seminar the students will have the opportunity to apply the theoretical reading to the analysis of the corresponding week’s film. The course ends with a test with open and analytical answers based on the seminar readings, lectures, and films.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- receives initial knowledge of film culture and Film Studies;
- will have seen and closely analysed several classical films and read and discussed many classical texts of Film Studies;
- has developed their ability to do close textual analysis on films;
- has improved their ability to offer critical argument in a short written form.

Teacher

Teet Teinemaa, Sten Kauber

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