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This course examines how cinema creates meaning through formal elements such as narrative, mise-en-scene, cinematography, sound and editing. It introduces students to key concepts and terms in Film Studies. It develops their textual analysis skills a...

This course involves a critical exploration of several important stages in the history of cinema. These periods will be examined within a range of artistic, cultural, historical, material and/or theoretical contexts.

This course involves a survey of the significant theoretical approaches that inform Film Studies. Topics will vary from year to year but may include realism, formalism, semiotics, narratology, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and/or postmodernism. In 2...

This course focuses on the cinema and visual culture of Aotearoa New Zealand from different cultural, aesthetic, historical, industrial and economic perspectives.

This course is a study of a film culture or linked film cultures that are fostered through shared production, distribution and exhibition practices and that emerge from particular cultural or subcultural contexts. It explores the relationship of film...

This course investigates the documentary mode in a range of historical contexts from its early history and its relationship with the avant-garde to the current prevalence of documentary in multiple forms and contexts.

This course will examine one or more film genres from an aesthetic, historical, cultural, and/or economic perspective.

In this course we will examine one or more periods of Hollywood cinema from an aesthetic, historical, cultural, and/or economic perspective.

This course examines East Asian cinema from the early twentieth century to the present. Selected East Asian films are studied in their historical, political and cultural context with special emphasis on issues related to nationhood, modernity, gender...

This course provides students with the opportunity to develop practical skills in production including directing, cinematography, editing and sound. It involves both individual and collaborative production exercises as well as script development assi...

This practical course will explore the ideation and production processes of short web series. Students will develop, produce, and post-produce a complete mini web series in small production groups.

This hands-on course will familiarise students with the main stylistic features shared by music of the late-Romantic period and many contemporary Hollywood film scores. The course draws on key triadic post-tonal theories (especially Neo-Riemannian th...

This course will focus on significant contemporary debates and theoretical issues in Film Studies. Topics will vary.

This course examines how cinema represents issues such gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality and/or class in a critical manner.

This course focuses on Pacific cinema from a range of cultural, aesthetic, historical, industrial and/or economic perspectives. Topics may vary from year to year. In 2016 the course will focus on colonial/settler visual and literary representations o...

This course is an advanced study of a film culture or linked film cultures that are fostered through shared production, distribution and exhibition practices and that emerge from particular cultural or subcultural contexts. It explores the relationsh...

This course examines the relationships between cinema and other media in a variety of contexts. Topics may include analogue and/or digital technologies, animation, 3D, and/or multiple platforms. FILM 305 provides students with opportunities to develo...

This course examines the artistic dimensions of cinema at an advanced level. It may focus on specific film styles, aspects of the medium, individual directors, avant-garde and experimental cinema, or historical trends.

The course focuses on the field of film in its cultural, institutional and industrial contexts. This may include consideration of cinema as industry; the cultures and practices of film and related creative industries; or the role and influence of cul...

This course involves an advanced study of the cinema of Aotearoa New Zealand with an emphasis on contemporary critical debates.

This course involves a practical study of the creative and technical aspects of film production. Students will make a short dramatic film in small groups. This will develop their skills at scripting, photography, mise-en-scene, performance, editing, ...

A critical and practical study of documentary filmmaking. Documentary Film Production aims to provide students with a broad understanding of the forms and styles of documentary. The course will focus on stylistic and structural aspects of the documen...

This course uses hands-on film production techniques to explore topics in film. Possible topics include national cinemas, film genres, historical film movements and/or film theories.

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An in-depth study of current issues in film music criticism.

This course will examine one or more contemporary and/or historical theoretical perspectives on cinema. It may focus on a specific thinker, a particular theoretical trend, and/or significant issues such as screen aesthetics, the nature of the medium,...

This course will situate cinema in terms of its social and cultural contexts at an advanced level. The course may explore issues such as its representational strategies, relationship to specific cultural practices, and/or its links to broader social ...

An advanced study of the relation between national cinema and national identity as manifested in the cinema of Aotearoa New Zealand, emphasising primary research using local resources. Topics discussed may include production, distribution, and exhibi...

This is a practical course in which students perform some of the key roles involved in the production of dramatic works on video. The emphasis of the course is on the shaping and refinement of creative ideas and their conversion into compelling works...

The Environmental Humanities is an emerging interdisciplinary field exploring how human activity and values are entangled with and have impacts on nonhuman worlds, ecological histories, and the planet. This course will explore key questions from the ...

This course develops advanced production management skills, preproduction planning, collaborative production skills, creative leadership and post-production techniques. Students will collaborate on the production of several short film projects that a...

This course considers the nature, effects and/or role of technological developments in cinema including processes of change and innovation. It analyses the ways in which technology influences our understanding of cinema, the way technological changes...

This course will explore a specific period, movement, school, cycle and/or other development within the history of cinema. The approach may be framed through chronological, theoretical, aesthetic and/or technological criteria. Topics could include th...

This course provides students with the opportunity to engage productively with cinema through close textual analysis. It may consider issues such as different types of film style, form, or technique; film interpretation and criticism; film authorship...