Media

Course Introduction:

This unit offers you the opportunity to begin to ​explore the history, critical theories, and the contemporary contexts and key debates of diversity within the institutional and representational practices of film and wider social and political processes. Our course will revolve around the analysis of LGBTQA identities; film/media representations and debates around ethnic and diversity profiles, including US and British-Black, Asian-British, European, and global screen media; questions of inclusion, exclusion, power, access, and rights; whiteness; gender and feminist issues; disability; and the potential role post-screen and social media technologies/platforms might serve for increasing an awareness of diversity and for creating new forms of digital identities.

Through a range of lectures, screenings, close reading of critical texts, worksheets, workshops and assessment, you will develop a range of intellectual, theoretical, and analytic methodologies that will help to open up your critical frames of reference to inform your film production practice and through which you will be encouraged to make connections to wider social and political issues, contexts and transformations in society.