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Narratology and Film Analysis

Course code

HIK7164.HT

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Narratoloogia ja filmianalüüs

Course title in English

Narratology and Film Analysis

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2026/2027 Autumn semester

Diana Popa (language of instruction:English)

lecturer of 2026/2027 Spring semester

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

Brief description of the course

This course interrogates film analysis as a method instead of teaching it as a skill. We examine the epistemological commitments and limits of competing analytical approaches —
formalist, cultural, feminist, transnational, archival — and adapt these tools to audiovisual objects beyond mainstream narrative cinema, including serial television and broadcast formats.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- is able to critically evaluate competing methods of film analysis and articulate their epistemological commitments and blind spots;
- is able to adapt analytical tools to audiovisual objects beyond mainstream narrative cinema, such as serial television, broadcast formats and non-fiction forms;
- is able to produce a methodologically self-aware analytical essay that justifies its analytical choices in dialogue with current scholarly debates;
- is able to position their analytical work in relation to their own disciplinary
background and research interests.

Teacher

Emilia Diana Popa

Study programmes containing that course