COMM2930 Understanding Movies
| Course | COMM2930 Understanding Movies |
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| Class Time | Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 16:30 – 19:15 (GMT+8) Find your local time here |
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| Teacher | Dr. Sean TIERNEY | |||
| Course Description | This course aims at helping students to earn a solid vocabulary and a sharp eye in analyzing films. Students will learn about the basic cinematic techniques and structures, including mise-en-scene and montage, use of cinematic time and space, the image, soundtrack, and the script. Theoretical perspectives such as realism, feminism, postmodernism would be introduced to address the political, economic and socio-cultural implications of movies. Equipped with these analytical tools, students can critically appreciate movies of different era and different places. | |||
| Course Outline/Syllabus | Download | |||
| Prerequisite(s) | — | |||
| Remark(s) | UGED2637 is double-coded with COMM2930. Not for students who have taken UGED2637. | |||
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Dr. Sean Tierney has lived and worked in Hong Kong since 2005. His areas of interest are Intercultural Communication and Cultural Studies. In addition to teaching about film at the undergraduate and graduate levels, he has written about film for local media. He has also been professionally involved in the Hong Kong film industry as an actor and consultant. | |||