Media and film studies

Hollywood: Industry and Imaginary

Module code: P4012AD
Level 6
30 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Film
Assessment modes: Not yet finalised

This module looks at one of the world's most commercially and culturally significant media institutions. It addresses Hollywood as a set of interconnected practices, both industrial and symbolic. The module develops points of contact between two ways of envisaging films - as commodities within a moving image economy, and as symbolic forms - by situating film texts in historical contexts. It focuses in particular on the period from 1960s to the present day.