Field Study in Cinema Studies, 15 ECTS
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Description
This course aims to provide students, within the context of a field study, with the opportunity to apply their theoretical and methodological skills and interests to a concrete research subject. This field study will be conducted on a workplace of relevance for the area of Cinema Studies, such as production companies for film or television, The Swedish Film Institute, organizations providing funding for production, museums and archives. The field study will result in a scholarly investigation of a chosen research problem or question. The course itself consists in the preparation and execution of the field study, the writing of a scholarly report, accompanying seminars during the study, and a final seminar. Preparatory seminars will address methods for the study. The student must find a workplace for the field study to be approved by the responsible teacher. The research problem/question for the study will be developed in dialogue with the responsible teacher; both the workplace chosen by the student and the research question/problem have to be agreed upon by the teacher. A contact person at the workplace has to be identified in the preparatory phase. The field study has to encompass a continuing period of seven weeks and has to be conducted full-time and without major intermissions. The student’s engagement at the workplace has to allow for continuing work with the field study report and related course assignments.
Area of interests: Arts and Humanities
How are different cultures created and how do they affect us? Arts and Humanities is an area of interest that includes a wide variety of subjects such as Archaeology, Philosophy, History, Religion, Ethnology, Literature, and Theatre and Performance Studies. In one way or another these subjects are an expression of how culture affects human beings and society. As a student you will improve your analytical skills and learn to identify different lines of development, often in an interdisciplinary context. Studies within Arts and Humanities give you broad general competence that is very useful in the job market, where autonomy, analytical and communication skills are in great demand.
Subject
Cinema Studies
Cinema Studies is the study of moving images and screen cultures centered around film, film experience, and phenomena surrounding films. Historically, it ranges from image cultures before film, to the screens and digital platforms of today. The field is broad and can be found at institutions around the world under the designations of Film Studies, Television Studies, Media Studies, Visual Arts, Cultural Studies, Film and Media History, and Moving Image Studies.
The objects of study can be specific films, production cultures, genre, auteur, intermedial and trans-medial relations, archives, circulation and distribution, reception (audience, critique), film culture, media industries, institutional frameworks (legal, political, economic), technological arrangements or streaming platforms.
Approaches and perspectives applied can be genre or narrative analysis, aesthetics, auteur criticism, reception studies, critique of filmic representations, post-colonial or gender perspectives, celebrity culture, or perspectives from political economy and cultural studies.
The field is informed by Literature, History and Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Linguistics, Psychology, Sociology, and Economics. Cinema Studies at Stockholm University is focused on historical perspectives and key medial moments of transformation, Ingmar Bergman, as well as contemporary film and mediascapes.