MODULE SPECIFICATION

Code: UACPCM-30-3 Title: British National Cinemas Version: 3

Level: 3 UWE credit rating: 30 ECTS credit rating: 15

Module type: Standard

Owning Faculty: Creative Arts Field: Cultural & Media Studies Field Leader: J Arthurs

Faculty Committee approval: Date:

Valid from: April 2008 Discontinued from:

Contributes towards: Awards up to BA (Hons)

Pre-requisites: UACPAE-30-1 Film Cultures

Co-requisites: None

Excluded combinations: None

Learning outcomes:

On successful completion of this module students will be able to demonstrate:

• the ability to place a ‘history’ of British cinema within debates about the economy and politics of film production, and link these debates to concepts of national identity (Component A, Component B, element 1)

• an understanding of the relationship between formations of class, ethnicity and gender and the production and reception of national film fictions (Component A, Component B, element 2)

• the ability to analyse a film or film genre within a framework that integrates the understanding of text within the contexts of production, distribution and reception (Component A, Component B, element 2)

• the ability to construct an argument through detailed attention to, and analysis of, visual material; (Component A, Component B, element 2)

• the ability to contextualise a specific example within a relevant intellectual context (All components)

• the ability to interrogate and critique conceptual frameworks (Component B, elements 1 & 2)

• the ability to amass and evaluate bibliographic resources (Component B, elements 1 & 2)

Syllabus outline:

British film and the construction of national identity; national cinema and the politics of film production; industrial and post-industrial landscapes in British films; private pleasures and public issues in British film traditions; British film within the context of the multiplex and the multicultural.

Teaching and learning methods:

Lectures, screenings, seminar discussions, tutorials,

Reading Strategy

It is essential that students read the set texts published in the module reader and to extend their reading through the recommended theoretical and contextual material suggested in the module handbook. This material is available in the library, or electronically via the Library’s Digital Collections. Students are expected to identify all other reading relevant to their chosen topic for themselves and they will be encouraged to read widely using the library catalogue, a variety of bibliographic and full text databases, and Internet resources. It will be expected that assignment bibliographies and reference lists will reflect the range of reading carried out.

Indicative Reading List: (see guidance notes)

Docherty, D et al (eds) The Last Picture Show? Britain’s Changing Film Audiences, BFI, 987

Gledhill, C Nationalising Femininity: Culture, Sexuality and British Cinema in the

& Swanson, G (eds) Second World War, Manchester University Press, 1996

Murphy,R (ed) British Cinema of the 90s, BFI, 2000

Petrie, D(ed) New Questions of British Cinema, 1993.

Rosenstone, R A (ed) Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a New Past, Princeton University Press, 1995

Street, S British National Cinema, Routledge, 1997

Assessment

Weighting between components A and B (standard modules only) A: 25% B: 75%

ATTEMPT 1

First Assessment Opportunity

Component A

Description of each element Element weighting

1. Exam (2 hours) 25%

Component B

Description of each element Element weighting

1. Essay (2000 words) 25%

2. Essay (4000 words) 50%

Second Assessment Opportunity (further attendance at taught classes is not required)

Component A

Description of each element Element weighting

2. Exam (2 hours) 25%

Component B

Description of each element Element weighting

1. Essay (2000 words) 25%

2. Essay (4000 words) 50%

SECOND (OR SUBSEQUENT) ATTEMPT: Attendance at taught classes is not required.

Specification confirmed by ………………………Date………

(Associate Dean/Programme Director)