Hollywood Cinema

What it covers

This unit introduces students to the distinctive film-making practices of the Hollywood Cinema. The unit will examine a number of representative texts from an aesthetic and historical perspective. Students will be encouraged to evaluate seminal texts drawn from the classical Hollywood cinema as well as texts produced independently outside the studio system. Narrative strategies, stylistic norms and audience expectations will be examined in detail. Students will acquire an insight into production techniques, distribution and marketing strategies and the development of dominant and marginal stylistic approaches.

Assessment

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