Film & Media Studies

This trans-disciplinary course provides details on past and current systems and cases of censorship to allow for in-depth study of certain landmark plays, novels, and film adaptations that have caused the greatest scandals and most intense censorship over the past century. It brings together notions of media studies, sociology, history, law and key legal battles, publication processes, as well as literary and film analysis. The course mainly focuses on banned and censored books and film adaptations in Great Britain and the United States, and students have the opportunity to bring in such cases in other countries during the weekly round table debates and in-class discussions.

Through the teaching of commercial photography related knowledge, as well as a large number of practical photography practice, students can master the basic commercial photography shooting skills, and the ability to carry out and produce creative ideas by means of photography, and finally have the ability and methods to complete the complete commercial visual image production.

This course is guided by commercial photography practice. Based on the study of basic shooting techniques and photographic equipment, three parts of photography training are carried out:

1. Street photography, which mainly trains students' observation ability and capture skills in specific environment, and completes photography works with aesthetic feeling and interest;

2. Advertising photography, mainly carried out in the studio, including shooting scheme planning, visual creativity and placement skills, has the ability to execute a complete set of advertising photography works;

3. Public relations photography, combined with the technique of snapshot and shooting, can fully shoot and present the images of specific commercial activities, marketing events, and characters.The three parts are organically combined to form a relatively integrated commercial photography system.

Migration is and has been, a significant influence on European cultures and societies. This course acknowledges this from two main perspectives. On the one hand, how conditions of migration have been represented in film and television – in different national and historical contexts. On the other hand, how migration has affected film production itself, not least regarding how film workers have moved from one country to another, finding new arenas for exploring both their creativity and identity.

This course examines the basics of media and their social, economic, and psychological implications. It covers theoretical approaches to the study of media and how media technologies affect economic structures, social processes, and psychological consequences, such as information economy, interpersonal communication, relationship development, community building, and civic/political participation. In addition, the course covers various media including the Internet, mobile phones, social networking sites, and computer games. The class also discusses key concepts such as privacy, addiction, and copyright. Furthermore, students learn theoretical concepts and ideas that enable them to understand Korean media and “read” Korean popular culture, including the Korean Wave (Hallyu) and K-pop, from academic perspectives.

The focus of this course is upon representations of the links between the British Empire and colonialism from the 1930s to the present time in colonial and postcolonial cinema. Students explore a variety of perspectives, from postcolonial studies to gender and cultural studies, in order to examine how the empire film relies on figures and stereotypes that the cinemas of decolonization and the diasporas re-appropriate through strategies of irony and subversion. Students study the way the identification of the nation to gendered figures informs narratives and representations and how female directors have offered alternative discourses in various contexts of production.

This course analyzes different photographic genres and the history of the evolution of photography from its uses in art and media. It looks at the technical aspects of different styles such as documentary and humanist photography, as well as how photography captures different motives such as urban spaces, cultural and natural landscapes, war, natural disasters, and portraits.  

This course offers students an introduction to the terms, ideas and craft, involved in the creation of screenplays. Students explore the conventions of dramatic structure, new narrative forms, and short film variations. They are encouraged to think critically about screenplay writing and have an opportunity to write their own screenplay. The course does not aim to provide vocational training for students wishing to pursue careers in the feature film or television industries.