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Expanded Cinema

Course
2017-2018

Admission requirements

N.a.

Description

During this course we will reflect on the phenomenon of ‘expanded cinema’ in the broadest meaning of the term. We shall consider several film practices that deviate from the standard format of commercial movies and are presented elsewhere than in a regular cinema: the museum, the street and in our living rooms. Our history begins in the 1960s; a period that introduced the term media ecology in order to capture the complex interactions between different media practices, such as Hollywood cinema, independent film, television, and video art, on a local and global scale. We shall trace a geneaglogy of the multi-screen film and video installation up to ‘post-cinematic’ present where film has become fully integrated within the visual arts. We shall discuss such topics as real-time, liveness, media feedback, and reenactment as well as discuss the impact of urban screens, surveillance cameras and remost sensing technology on our daily experience.

Course objectives

Students who successfully complete this course will:

  • have acquired knowledge of the most important developments in the field of multi-media practices since the 1906os;

  • have gained insight in the interweaving of diverse media practices and image technologies within contemporary visual culture;

  • have acquired knowledge of the most important theories in this field of research;

  • be able to identify, describe and interpret the mose important forms of multi-media practice since the 1960s

Timetable

The timetable is available on the website.

Mode of instruction

Lectures

Course Load

  • Total course load: 140 hours

  • Lectures: 26 hours

  • Self-study: 114 hours

Assessment method

Paper (100%)

Resit

Paper (100%)

Exam review

How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.

Blackboard

Blackboard will be used for announcements, providing literature and other study materials, peer-review, plagiarism control, and weekly assignments.

Reading list

Via Blackboard

Registration

Enrolment through uSis for classes, exams and final papers is mandatory.

Registration Studeren à la carte and Contractonderwijs

Registration Studeren à la carte
Registration Contractonderwijs

Contact

For questions about the content of the course, you can contact the teacher Dr. E.C.H. de Bruyn.

Student administration: Van Wijkplaats
Coordinator of studies: ms. drs. E.M.T.Poolman

Remarks

For more information please check the website of the study program Film and Literature Studies.