2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

FILM5040M Hollywood and its Others

30 creditsClass Size: 60

Module manager: Chris Homewood
Email: c.j.homewood@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Pre-requisite qualifications

None

This module is mutually exclusive with

FILM3040

Hollywood and its Others

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module explores the representation of marginalised groups in Hollywood – variously accused by the Right of ‘going woke’ or by the Left of reinforcing hierarchies of gender, sexuality and race. The module offers critical insight into the representational processes that often cast individuals, groups, even entire cultures, in the role of ‘Other.’ It will encourage students to think about the ways in which questions of representation are explored by cultural theorists and film scholars.

Objectives

The aim of this module is to deepen students’ understanding of theoretical concepts surrounding the representation of difference or 'otherness' in Hollywood cinema. The module will introduce students to new research and scholarship in Film Studies related to the representation of marginalised groups in Hollywood. Via a series of case studies from a wide variety of genres, students will be encouraged to investigate how, and to which ideological ends, minority figures within Western society and other cultures are portrayed by the Hollywood system.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:

1: evaluate the core intellectual and theoretical issues related to minority representation in Hollywood cinema.
2: assess historical and contemporary developments in minority representation in Hollywood cinema.
3: show sensitive and critical understanding towards different forms and concepts of othering / otherness.
4: evaluate geopolitical and industrial developments that underpin contemporary changes to minority representation in Hollywood.

Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:

5: Identify gaps in knowledge and seek out the information or evidence needed in order to understand an issue, or to address a problem or task
6: Discriminate amongst information and evidence through identifying and evaluating factors such as the currency, reliability, relevance, authorship or completeness
7: Make connections across differing perspectives in order to explore ideas, identify problems and provide evidenced solutions
8: Define and frame a problem accurately through gathering relevant and reliable information
9 Interpret and analyse information from a number of sources, and differing views, to suggest a solution to a complex problem

Syllabus

Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Seminar	10	2.00	20.00
Independent online learning hours			24.00
Private study hours			256.00
Total Contact hours			20.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress will be monitored on a regular basis via classroom participation, group discussions and presentations (formative), which will also allow for peer feedback. Students will also be given formal feedback on their first assignment (1 x 1000-word literature review = 40%). This feedback will help them formulate their own research question and produce their final module essay (1 x 2000-word essay = 60%).

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	1000 -word literature review	40.00
Assignment	2000-word essay	60.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 02/08/2024

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