| Unit name | Approaches to Performance and Screen Studies 2: Analysis and Grammar |
|---|---|
| Unit code | DRAM11001 |
| Credit points | 30 |
| Level of study | C/4 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Professor. Street |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites | |
| School/department | Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
Year 1 of the course is designed to lay the foundations in performance and screen studies, introducing key concepts, theories and approaches. These are supplemented by workshops and seminars in specific aspects of performance and screen studies which include critical and textual analysis.This unit will continue the encouragement of critical understandings of the crucial components of performance & screen, focusing particularly on the basic properties of film form and analysis, audiences and space/time in performance & screen, the contexts of performance & screen, particularly its cultural, social, political and economic contexts. Lectures, seminars and workshops will explore contrasting ways in which these elements of performance & screen have been configured in different periods and cultural contexts, in order to establish conceptual vocabularies and theoretical frameworks which students can use to analyse creatively the complexities of performance & screen in practice.
