| CODE | ATS5063 | ||||||
| TITLE | Udine-Gorizia, International Film Studies Spring School | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Faculty of Arts | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This is an intensive programme for students who have already followed the International Film Studies Spring School in Udine-Gorizia during the first year of their studies. Building on the knowledge they acquired during the previous year, students will follow lectures, participate in workshops, visit exhibitions and attend screenings and artists’ talks. The Spring School is held in the towns of Udine and Gorizia (North-Italy) and is open to academic staff as well as Master’s and Ph.D students. During the Spring School, scholars from various European and North American countries, filmmakers, visual artists and curators gather with the purpose of discussing specific themes in the areas of film and contemporary visual arts. Special attention is paid to the training of experts and theorists in the field of audiovisual media. Over the years, the following themes have been discussed: Institutions, Knowledge, Dispositifs; the Digital Archive; Memory, Image, Historical Time; The Archive and its Subject; The Archive and its Traces; Cinema & Contemporary Visual Art; Post-Cinema: videogame/animation/comic; the Film Heritage. Details pertaining to the next Udine-Gorizia International Spring School is available at the following link: http://www.filmforumfestival.it/ The Spring School will concentrate on the following themes: Exposing the Moving Image: the Cinematic Medium across World Fairs, Art Museums, and Cultural Exhibitions. XVI MAGIS International Film Studies Spring School – At the Edges of Nobody's Empire: Media, Politics, and Representations. Study-unit Aims: - Following their experience in the Spring School last year, students will have the opportunity to enhance their ability in actively engaging in the ongoing debate on film studies within a dynamic international setting. - Students will hone in on their acquired ability to exchange their ideas on film with postgraduate students from other universities by attending lectures and workshop sessions delivered by leading international film scholars participating in the Udine/Gorizia Spring School. - Students will be given greater exposure to the multifaceted dimension of film and its relationship with the other arts. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - build on the knowledge and the understanding which was acquired during last year’s Spring School; - enhance this acquired ability to conceptualize and convincingly express new insights on a wide variety of films and their complex engagement with the other arts; - hone in on a deeper understanding of how to examine, organise, and synthesise his or her scholarly views of both a thematic and technical nature on the cinema of different countries or regions; - engage in scholarly debate on film and its relationship with both "low" and "high" culture; - having followed two editions of the Spring School and garnered the unique benefits of such an experience, improve the expressive potential in his or her overall critical engagement with film studies. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - enhance all the skills which were acquired during last year’s Spring School; - acquire greater confidence in formally articulating and discussing in a scholarly fashion his or her ideas on film; - refine the analysis of films as part of a complex web of intertextual relationships with the visual arts; - draw on his or her improved expressive potential in film and apply it to the critical appraisal of related fields in seminar discussion; - collegially interact with greater ease in debate on film and its relationship with the other arts. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: A list of main texts and supplementary readings will be provided each year as soon as the programme of the Spring School is announced. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lectures, Visits and Workshops | ||||||
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The University makes every effort to ensure that the published Courses Plans, Programmes of Study and Study-Unit information are complete and up-to-date at the time of publication. The University reserves the right to make changes in case errors are detected after publication.
The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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