Outline

Overview

What is the cinematic experience today, in an age of fragmented audiences and multiple platform delivery? Taking the film festival as its central case study, this unit examines the festival as a cultural institution, as a site for the making of film history, and as a scene of the curious mixture of the festive and the cerebral, the sensual and the serious.

Unit details and rules

Academic unit	Art History
Credit points	6
Prerequisites ?	None
Corequisites ?	None
Prohibitions ?	None
Assumed knowledge ?	None
Available to study abroad and exchange students	Yes

Teaching staff

Coordinator	Susan Potter, susan.potter@sydney.edu.au

Type	Description	Weight	Due	Length
Presentation	Presentation 1 n/a	20%	Multiple weeks	1000 words
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Presentation	Presentation 2 n/a	20%	Multiple weeks	1000 words
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Assignment	Research essay n/a	60%	Week 13 Due date: 14 Nov 2021 at 23:59	4000 words
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Assessment summary

Detailed information for each assessment can be found on Canvas.

Assessment criteria

The University awards common result grades, set out in the (Schedule 1).

As a general guide, a High distinction indicates work of an exceptional standard, a Distinction a very high standard, a credit a good standard, and a pass an acceptable standard.

Result name	Mark range	Description
High distinction	85 - 100	听
Distinction	75 - 84	听
Credit	65 - 74	听
Pass	50 - 64	听
Fail	0 - 49	When you don鈥檛 meet the learning outcomes of the unit to a satisfactory standard.

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For more information see guide to grades.

Late submission

In accordance with University policy, these penalties apply when written work is submitted after 11:59pm on the due date:

Deduction of 5% of the maximum mark for each calendar day after the due date.
After ten calendar days late, a mark of zero will be awarded.

Academic integrity

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We use similarity detection software to detect potential instances of plagiarism or other forms of academic integrity breach. If such matches indicate evidence of plagiarism or other forms of academic integrity breaches, your teacher is required to report your work for further investigation.

Use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and automated writing tools

You may only use generative AI and automated writing tools in assessment tasks if you are permitted to by your unit coordinator. If you do use these tools, you must acknowledge this in your work, either in a footnote or an acknowledgement section. The assessment instructions or unit outline will give guidance of the types of tools that are permitted and how the tools should be used.

Your final submitted work must be your own, original work. You must acknowledge any use of generative AI tools that have been used in the assessment, and any material that forms part of your submission must be appropriately referenced. For guidance on how to acknowledge the use of AI, please refer to the .

The unapproved use of these tools or unacknowledged use will be considered a breach of the Academic Integrity Policy and penalties may apply.

Studiosity is permitted unless otherwise indicated by the unit coordinator. The use of this service must be acknowledged in your submission as detailed on the .

Outside assessment tasks, generative AI tools may be used to support your learning. The contains a number of productive ways that students are using AI to improve their learning.

Learning support

Simple extensions

If you encounter a problem submitting your work on time, you may be able to apply for an extension of five calendar days through a听simple extension.鈥� The application process will be different depending on the type of assessment and extensions cannot be granted for some assessment types like exams.

Special consideration

If exceptional circumstances mean you can鈥檛 complete an assessment, you need consideration for a longer period of time, or if you have essential commitments which impact your performance in an assessment, you may be eligible for听special consideration or special arrangements.

Special consideration applications will not be affected by a simple extension application.

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Weekly schedule

WK	Topic	Learning activity
Week 01	Introduction: Experience	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 02	Visual cultures of modernity	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 03	Proto-cinematic	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 04	Auras, lost and found	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 05	Film festivals and modernity at large	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 06	Publics	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 07	Counterpublics	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 08	Reading week - theses due	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 09	Apparatus or assemblage	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 10	Home cinema	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 11	Ecological cinema	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 12	Open cinema	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 13	Live cinema	Seminar (2 hr)

Attendance and class requirements

Attendance: According to Faculty Board Resolutions, students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences are expected to attend 90% of their classes. If you attend less than 50% of classes, regardless of the reasons, you may be referred to the Examiner鈥檚 Board. The Examiner鈥檚 Board will decide whether you should pass or fail the unit of study if your attendance falls below this threshold.
Lecture recording: Most lectures (in recording-equipped venues) will be recorded and may be made available to students on the LMS. However, you should not rely on lecture recording to substitute your classroom learning experience.
Preparation: Students should commit to spend approximately three hours鈥� preparation time (reading, studying, homework, essays, etc.) for every hour of scheduled instruction.

Study commitment

Typically, there is a minimum expectation of 1.5-2 hours of student effort per week per credit point for units of study offered over a full semester. For a 6 credit point unit, this equates to roughly 120-150 hours of student effort in total.

Required readings

FILM4114: THE CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE.听听(Film Studies Honours seminar.)

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READINGS.
week 1 introduction to the unit.

PART 1. PHILOSOPHY (wks 2-4)
week 2
1. A) PHENOMENOLOGY.
Sobchack, Vivian.听听鈥淭he Scene of the Screen: Envisioning Photographic, Cinematic and Electronic 鈥淧resence鈥�.鈥澨�135-162.

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Merleau-Ponty, Maurice.听听鈥淔ilm and the New Psychology.鈥澨�Sense and Non-Sense.听听Trans Hubert L. Dreyfus and Patricia Allen Dreyfus.听听Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1964.听听

Stephens, Elizabeth.听听鈥淪ensation Machine: Film, Phenomenology and the training of the senses.鈥澨�Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. 24. 4 (2012): 529 鈥� 539.

Chammaratte, Jenny.听听鈥淓mbodied Worlds and Situated Bodies: Feminism, Phenomenology, Film Theory.鈥� Symposium: Politics of the Sensing Body.听听Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 40 2 (2015): 289 鈥� 295.

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week 3

1 B)听AFFECT
Rutherford, Anne.听听鈥淐inema and embodied Affect.鈥澨�What Makes a Film Tick?听听Cinematic affect, Materiality and Mimetic Innervation. Bern Pweter Lang, 2018.听听143 鈥� 163.

SUPPLEMENTARY.
Flaxman, Gregory.听听鈥淥nce More with Feeling: Cinema and Cinesthesia.鈥澨�SubStance. 45. 3 (141), 2016: 174-189.

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week 4
1 C)听ETHICS.
Hadjioannu, Markos.听听鈥淭racing and Ethics of the Movie Image.鈥澨�From Light to Byte: Toward an Ethics of Digital Cinema.听听Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 2012. 177-209.

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SUPPLEMENTARY

Gronstadt, Asbjorn.听听鈥淭he Ethical Turn in Film and Visual Culture: From Content to Form.鈥澨�Film and the Ethical Imagination. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.听听53 鈥� 73.
Sinnerbrink, Robert.听听鈥淐inematic Ethics: Film as a medium of ethical experience.鈥澨�Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical experience through Film.听听London: Routledge, 2015.听听1 鈥� 22.
Sobchack, Vivian.听听鈥淭he Passion of the Material: Toward a Phenomenology of Interobjectivity.鈥澨�Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture.听听Berkley, Los Angeles, London; California UP, 2004. 286 鈥� 318.

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PART 2 SCIENCE (wks 5-7)

week 5
2 A) NEUROSCIENCE
Gallese, Vittorio, Christian Keysers, Giacomo Rizzolatti.听听鈥淎 unifying view of the basis of social cognition.鈥澨�Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 8. 9 (September 2004): 396 鈥� 404.
Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine.听听鈥淢ovement and mirror neurons: a challenging and choice conversation.鈥澨�Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences.听听11 (2012): 385 鈥� 401.

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SUPPLEMENTARY

Pisters, Patricia.听听鈥淪ynaptic Signals: Time Travelling Through the Brain in the Neuro-Image.鈥澨�Deleuze Studies. 5. 2 (2011): 261-74.

Herogenrath, Bernd.听听鈥渃inapses: thinking/film 鈥� Film, Philosophy and Neuroscience.鈥澨�Illuminance. 23. 4 2011: 144-148.

Gallese, Vittorio and Michele Guerra.听听鈥淓mbodying Movies: Embodied Simulation and Film Studies.鈥澨�Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image.听听3. (2012): 183-210.

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week 6
2 B) COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Heimann, Katrin et al.听听鈥溾€機uts in action鈥�: A High-Density EEG Study Investigating the Neural Correlates of Different Editing Techniques in Film.鈥澨�Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal.听听41 (2017): 1555 鈥� 1588.

Shimamura, Arthur P, et al.听听鈥淗ow Attention is Driven by Film Edits: A Multimodal Experience.鈥澨�Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts.听听9. 4 (2015): 417 鈥� 422.

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SUPPLEMENTARY

Cohen, Anna-Lisa.听听Et al.听听鈥淭he Power of the Picture: How Narrative Film Captures Attention and Disrupts Goal Pursuit.鈥澨�PLoS ONE听10. 12 (2015): 1 鈥� 8.听

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week 7
2 C) EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Grishakova, Marina and Siim Sorokin.听听鈥淣otes on narrative, cognition, and cultural evolution.鈥澨�Sign systems Studies. 44. 4 (2016): 542 鈥� 561.

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SUPPLEMENTARY

Grodal, Torben.听听鈥淚ntroduction to Part II: The PECMA Flow.鈥� And 鈥淪tories for eyes, ears and muscles: The Evolution of Embodied Sensations.鈥澨�Embodied Visions: Evolution, Emotion, Culture, and Film. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.听听145-180.

PART 3: INTERMISSION: THE STUDY OF FILM. wks 8-9
week 8
3 A) TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
Bellour, Raymond.听听鈥淪ystem of a Fragment (on听The Birds).鈥澨�The Analysis of Film.听听Ed. Constance Penley.听听Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 2001. 28-69.

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Cahiers editors.听听鈥淛ohn Ford鈥檚听Young Mr Lincoln: A collective text by the Editors of听cahiers du Cinema.鈥澨�Screen. 13. 3 (Autumn 1972): 5-44.听
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week 9
3 B) ATTENTIONAL ANALYSIS
Cutting, James E, et al 鈥淎ttention and the Evolution of Hollywood Film.鈥澨�Psychological Science.听听21 (2010): 432-439.

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Hasson, Uri. Orit Furman, Dav Clark, et al.听听鈥淓nhanced Intersubject Correlations during Movie Viewing Correlate with Successful Episodic Encoding.鈥澨�Neuron. 57 (February 2008): 452-462.

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PART 4 CINEPHILIA AND FILM FESTIVALS wks 10 鈥� 12

week 10
4 A) CINEPHILIA

Mulvey Laura.听听鈥淪ome reflections on the Cinephilia Question.听听Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media.听听50 1-2 (Spring-fall 2009): 190-193.

Sontag Susan.听听鈥淭he Decay of Cinema.鈥澨�New York Times. Feb 25 1996: 60 鈥� 61.

Barthes, Roland.听听鈥淟eaving the Movie Theatre.鈥澨�The Rustle of Language. Trans. Richard Howard. Berkley: University of California Press, 1989.听听345 鈥� 349.

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SUPPLEMENTARY

Willemen, Paul.听听鈥淭hrough a Glass Darkly: Cinephilia Reconsidered.鈥澨�Looks and Frictions:听听Essays in Cultural Studies and Film Theory.听听Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 223-57.

Keathley, Christian.听听鈥淭he Cinephiliac Moment.鈥澨�Cinephilia and History, or the wind in the trees.听听Indiana University press, 2006:听

week 11
4 B) FILM FESTIVALS.

de Valck, Marijke. "Cannes and the Alternative Cinema Network: Bridging the Gap between Cultural Criteria and Business Demands ". In听Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia. 85-121. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007.

Wong, Cindy Hing-Yuk.听听鈥淔estivals as Public spheres.鈥澨�Film festivals: Culture, People, and Power on the Global Screen.听听Rutgers University press 2011.听听19 鈥� 189.

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Wong, Cindy Hing-Yuk. 鈥淧ublics and Counterpublics: Rethinking Film Festivals as Public Spheres,鈥� 83-99. In Valck, Marijke de, Brendan Kredell, and Skadi Loist.听Film Festivals: History, Theory, Method, Practice. London: Routledge, 2016.

week 12. Conclusion.

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Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes are what students know, understand and are able to do on completion of a unit of study. They are aligned with the University's graduate qualities and are assessed as part of the curriculum.

Outcomes
Graduate qualities

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

LO1. synthesize disparate film concepts from different disciplines and fields of expertise
LO2. analyze, critique and ecaluate different critical and theoretical positions and approaches
LO3. present complex ideas succinctly and coherently.

Graduate qualities

The graduate qualities are the qualities and skills that all 爆料王 graduates must demonstrate on successful completion of an award course. As a future Sydney graduate, the set of qualities have been designed to equip you for the contemporary world.

GQ1	Depth of disciplinary expertise Deep disciplinary expertise is the ability to integrate and rigorously apply knowledge, understanding and skills of a recognised discipline defined by scholarly activity, as well as familiarity with evolving practice of the discipline.
GQ2	Critical thinking and problem solving Critical thinking and problem solving are the questioning of ideas, evidence and assumptions in order to propose and evaluate hypotheses or alternative arguments before formulating a conclusion or a solution to an identified problem.
GQ3	Oral and written communication Effective communication, in both oral and written form, is the clear exchange of meaning in a manner that is appropriate to audience and context.
GQ4	Information and digital literacy Information and digital literacy is the ability to locate, interpret, evaluate, manage, adapt, integrate, create and convey information using appropriate resources, tools and strategies.
GQ5	Inventiveness Generating novel ideas and solutions.
GQ6	Cultural competence Cultural Competence is the ability to actively, ethically, respectfully, and successfully engage across and between cultures. In the Australian context, this includes and celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, knowledge systems, and a mature understanding of contemporary issues.
GQ7	Interdisciplinary effectiveness Interdisciplinary effectiveness is the integration and synthesis of multiple viewpoints and practices, working effectively across disciplinary boundaries.
GQ8	Integrated professional, ethical, and personal identity An integrated professional, ethical and personal identity is understanding the interaction between one鈥檚 personal and professional selves in an ethical context.
GQ9	Influence Engaging others in a process, idea or vision.

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Assessment criteria

Late submission

Academic integrity

Learning support

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Simple extensions

Special consideration

Using AI responsibly

Weekly schedule

Weekly schedule

Attendance and class requirements

Study commitment

Required readings

Learning outcomes

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FILM4114: The Cinematic Experience

Semester 2, 2021 [Normal day] - Remote

Overview

Unit details and rules

Teaching staff

Assessment

Assessment summary

Assessment criteria

Late submission

Academic integrity

Learning support

Simple extensions

Special consideration

Using AI responsibly

Weekly schedule

Attendance and class requirements

Study commitment

Required readings

Learning outcomes

Graduate qualities

Outcome map

Responding to student feedback

Additional information

Work, health and safety

Disclaimer

On this page

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