Film Experience: theories and approaches

About this programme

This course in Cinema Studies offers theoretical analysis tools and media historical knowledge about various aspects of experience, affect and commitment to film and moving images. Also studied during third semester in Master's Programme in Cinema Studies. Classical approaches to the film image, to concepts such as “representation” and “spectatorship” are discussed, but also how these are expressed in film and video art. The emergence of alternative media platforms and viewing contexts requires a critical re-reading of classical spectator theory and related concepts. "Film experience" is therefore presented as a theoretical framework where spectatorism is problematized beyond psychology and individual experience, to rather analyze film as socially and historically coded media culture, created cultural memory, interactive screen culture or media attraction. By following this course you not only get taught by leading preofessors in the field, you also do it in Filmhuset , Gärdet Stockholm. The home of Swedish Film dedicated to research in Cinema Studies and moving images. The course is thematic with a focus on conceptual examples, where theoretical questions about, for example, time, memory and mediation are explored in dialogue with both classic film history, digital media and contemporary art. The teaching consists of lectures and seminars as well as screenings of films and other media material. Film screenings and oral presentation of group work at seminars are compulsory elements of the course. Lectures and seminars are mandatory. Teaching is in English.