Contemporary International Cinema Course Aim: To enable students to examine local and global perspectives and issues influencing the continuing evolution of media screen production and develop the ability to apply critical judgement to creative decisions. Learning Outcomes: 1. Employ disciplinary-specific training in the assessment, evaluation and critique of contemporary cinematic texts. 2. Explore the relationship between design possibilities and completed media texts. 3. Explore formal and theoretical perspectives of Film, TV and media texts including historical, cultural, gender, political, commercial and aesthetic concerns. Assignment: This assignment may be completed in groups, pairs or on your own. Students will work with the lecturer to pitch and deliver a creative project that reflects, references and derives inspiration from an international cinema industry or cultural cinema movement. The project will be designed to provide evidence that the students have met the course learning outcomes. The creative project can be discipline specific or inter-disciplinary. When creating your pitch consider the history of your inspirations and how culture, gender, politics and aesthetics impact your theoretical end product.
