Film and Media History- Period 1

STEM in Amsterdam Program
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dates: mid Aug 2025 - late Dec 2025

STEM in Amsterdam

Film and Media History- Period 1

Film and Media History- Period 1 Course Overview

OVERVIEW

CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Primary Subject Area: Film Studies
Instruction in: English
Course Code: L_AABAMKD202
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 200
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 84
Prerequisites: Media, Art, Design and Architecture students must have completed: - 1st year Historisch Overzicht MKDA Modern (L_AABAMKD105) - Academic English MKDA (L_EABAALG102). Exchange and elective students should have a good command of the English language.

DESCRIPTION

Film will be the central focus. The literature focuses on American and West- European cinema, but the lectures will contain extra information on precinema, cinema in the Netherlands, cinema vs. television, and conventional vs. New Film History. Cinema developed in its first decades from a vaudeville-like programme of attractions to a story-telling, narrative medium; from an invention to a popular mass medium, an industry and an art form. Technological, economical, social and aesthetical factors played important parts. For instance: 1) the introduction of the feature film, sound and widescreen; 2) the growth and expansion of cinema's infrastructure such as cinema exhibition and film distribution; 3) the rise of serious film criticism and the changes in the audiences; 4) the role of stardom and the language of performance; and 5) the interchange with such arts as literature, fine arts and theatre, but also with television and new media. Therefore, attention will also be paid to the idea of an integral or comparative media history. All lectures will be followed by related viewings of features or groups of shorts.

Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course therefore, CEA's recommended credits are based on the ECTS credits assigned by VU Amsterdam. 1 ECTS equals 28 contact hours assigned by VU Amsterdam.


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