Audiovisual Aesthetics

After completing the course, the student should be able to:

• Describe audiovisual narrative, style and genre using proper terminology
• Analyse the narrative, style and genre of an audiovisual work
• Give an account of the development and characteristics of the Hollywood style
• Write a theoretical and/or analytical essay
• Give an oral presentation, using audiovisual aids.

No obligatory prerequisites beyond the minimum requirements for entrance to higher education in Norway.

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International applicants, if you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.

The examination in this course is not available for external candidates. Only students admitted to the course may sit for the examination.

Lectures and seminars. Please see the term page for time and place.

Access to teaching

A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.

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Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.

The exam must be written in English.

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Evaluation

Feedback from our students is essential to us in our efforts to ensure and further improve the high quality of our programmes and courses. All courses are subject to continuous evaluation. At regular intervals we also ask students on a particular course to participate in a more comprehensive, periodic evaluation of this course.

Periodic evaluation fall 2010

Periodic evaluation fall 2011

Reading list

BOOK

Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson (2009 (1979)) Film Art. An Introduction. 9th ed. New York and London: McGraw-Hill (Chapter 2-6, pages 55-519) ¿ 465 pages

ARTICLES (in compendium if not otherwise stated)

Narrative

Lacey, Nick (2000) "Introduction to Narrative Theory", in Narrative and Genre. Key Concepts in Media Studies, London: Macmillan, pp. 5-77 ¿ 73 pages

Barthes, Roland (1966) "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative", in Roland Barthes and Stephen Heath (ed.) (1993) Image-Text-Music, New York: Hill and Wang, pp. 79-124 ¿ 46 pages

Games

Aarseth, Espen (2005) "From Hunt the Wumpus to EverQuest: Introduction to Quest Theory" (blir tilgjengelig via nett) ¿ (2010) "A Narrative Theory of Games" (blir tilgjengelig via nett)

Eskelinen, Markku (2001) "The Gaming Situation" http://gamestudies.org/0101/eskelinen/ (Online)

Apperley, Thomas H. (2006) "Genre and game studies: Toward a critical approach to video game genres" (blir tilgjengelig via nett)

Manovich, Lev (2001) "From The Language of New Media", in Leo Braudy & Marshall Cohen (ed.) (2009) Film Theory and Criticism. Introductory Readings, 7th ed., New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 785-801 ¿ 17 pages

Film

Eisenstein (1929) "From Film Form", in Leo Braudy & Marshall Cohen (ed.) (2009) Film Theory and Criticism. Introductory Readings, 7th ed., New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 13-40 ¿ 28 pages

Bordwell, David (1997) "On the History of Film Style", Cambridge.: Harvard U. P., pp. 1-11 ¿ 11 pages

Genre/Tone

Hayward, Susan (2000) "Genre/Sub-genre", in Cinema Studies. The Key Concepts, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 165-170 ¿ 6 pages

Altman, Rick (1984) "A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre", in Barry Keith Grant (ed.) (2003) Film Genre Reader III, Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 27-41 ¿ 15 pages

Neale, Steve (1990) "Questions of Genre", in Barry Keith Grant (ed.) (2003) Film Genre Reader III, Aust

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A student may sit this exam up to 3 times. If a student wishes to withdraw from the exam, s/he must do so in StudentWeb at least two weeks prior to the first day of the exam. Failure to do so will be counted as one of the three opportunities to sit the exam.