Edinburgh Napier University

KEM Kino Eyes European Movie Masters

Session 22-23 Intake 7 Third Semester
Provisional Calendar, v. 1.3

MODULE TITLE: Research and Development for Final Project Production

MODULE NUMBER: SCA 11137
MODULE LEADER: Dr. Pascal Cicchetti (p.cicchetti@napier.ac.uk)

MODULE CALENDAR
NB Bibliographical references are given in short form. Refer to the Leganto reading list for
details.

WEEK 1
No activities scheduled for this week.

Recommended Reading: Getting Started

[On English language]
Foster Wallace, “Authority and the American Usage”, 2005
Williams, Keywords, 2011 [1985]
Barry et al., Film Genre Reader IV, 2012
Kuleshov, Kuleshov on Film, 2019
Richter, The Struggle for Film, 1986 [1976]

WEEK 2

WED SEPT 14th | Semester induction with James Mavor

Merchiston G20 10:30-12:30

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WED SEPT 14th | Intro to Academic Skills services + R&D Module induction
Merchiston E 31 14:15-17:00

FRI SEPT 16th | Approaching Research Workshop 1

Online 10:00 – 11:30

WEEK 3
• Visual Anthropologies Tie-In: Biographical Narrative
• Ongoing Online Activity: Approaching Research Workshop 2

WED SEPT 21th | Seminar: Biographical Narrative

Merchiston E 31 14:00-16:30

Seminar Viewing
Haynes T. I’m Not There (USA 2000)
Seminar Readings
Williams, ‘Individual’, 1985
Bourdieu, ‘The biographical illusion’, 2000

FRI SEPT 23rd | Individual tutorials: Menna, Sara, Paco

Online 10:00 – 11:30
Book your slot on Moodle.

WEEK 4

• Visual Anthropologies Tie-In: Rites of Passage

• Ongoing Online Activity: Approaching Research Workshop 2

WED SEPT 28th | Seminar: Rites of Passages

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Merchiston E 31 14:00-16:30

Seminar Viewing
Arnold, Fish Tank (UK 2009)
Seminar Reading
Turner, ‘Betwixt and Between’, 1967
Mullen, ‘Estate of Mind’, Sight and Sound 19:10 (2009).

FRI SEPT 30th | Individual Tutorials: Diego, William, Nela

Online 10:00 – 11:30
Book your slot on Moodle.

WEEK 5

MON | OCT 3rd | Presentations on Report Proposals

Online, 9:00 – 12:00

TUE | OCT 4th | Presentations on Report Proposals

Online, 9:00 – 12:00

WED | OCT 5th | TBC

FRI OCT 7th | Presentations on Report Proposals

Online, TBC

WEEK 6

WED 12th OCT | TRANSMEDIA WORKSHOP

R&D activities are suspended to avoid scheduling clash

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FRI 14th OCT | Approaching Research Workshop 3
Merchiston H 14 10:00 – 13:00

WEEK 7

WED OCT 19th | Seminar: Time and the Film Image

Merchiston E 31 14:00-16:30

Seminar Viewing
Linklater, Boyhood (USA 2014)
Seminar Reading
Bazin, ‘The Ontology of the Photographic Image,’ 1945
Mulvey, ‘Passing Time’, 2011
Tedeschi, ‘Interview with Peter Mettler’, The Analog Sea Review 2 (2019)

FRI OCT 21st | Individual tutorials: Menna, Sara, Paco

Online 10:00 – 11:30
Book your slot on Moodle.

WEEK 8

WED OCT 26th | Student-led seminar: The Place of Cinema (Menna, Sara, Paco)
Merchiston E 31 14:00-16:30
In this student-led seminar we discuss—from our perspective as film writers and makers--
whether and how cinema can remain a relevant medium in today’s social and media
landscape. We also touch upon the role that public institutions and funding agencies play
in this conversation, in terms of enabling (or impeding) film-makers, or steering them
towards certain types of films.
Seminar Viewing
None. The students leading the seminar will select relevant clips to discuss during the
seminar.

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Seminar Reading
Rossellini et al, ‘Manifesto’, 1965
McArthur, ‘In Praise of A Poor Cinema’, 1993
Gaudreault and Marion, ‘Cinema Hangs Tough’, 2020

FRI OCT 28th | Individual Tutorials: Diego, William, Nela

Online 10:00 – 11:30
Book your slot on Moodle.

WEEK 9

[shoots]

WED NOV 2nd | TRANSMEDIA WORKSHOP

R&D activities are suspended to avoid scheduling clash

FRI NOV 4th | TRANSMEDIA WORKSHOP

R&D activities are suspended to avoid scheduling clash

WEEK 10

WED NOV 9th | Seminar: The (Changing) Meaning of Films

Merchiston E 31 14:00-16:30
Seminar Viewing
Sirk, All That Heaven Allows (USA 1955)
Seminar Reading
Klinger, ‘Film History Terminable and Interminable’, 1997

FRI NOV 11th | [Optional] Group Workshop on Report Statement

Merchiston H 14 10:00 – 11:30

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WEEK 11
• Visual Anthropologies Tie-In: Postcolonialism

WED NOV 16th | Seminar: The Legacy and Anxiety of Canons

Merchiston E 31 14:00-16:30

Seminar Viewing
Naderi, Cut (Japan 2011)
Seminar Reading
Naderi, Letter to Jean-Michel Frodon, published on www.cinemawithoutborders.com, 2018
Rosembaum, Intro. to Essential Cinema: On the necessity of film canons (excerpt), 2004
Shambu, ‘Manifesto for a new cinephilia’, 2019
Staiger, ‘The politics of film canons’, 1985

FRI NOV 18th | Tutorials by appointment

Online 10:00 – 11:30
Book your slot on Moodle.

WEEK 12

WED NOV 23rd | Student-led Seminar: Style and Technical Innovation (Diego, William,
Nela)
Merchiston E 31 14:00-16:30
In this student-led seminar, we discuss how technological innovations follow changing
aesthetic concerns within the medium, and how stylistic solutions emerge to tackle
expressive or creative problems.

Seminar Reading
Buscombe, ‘Sound and Colour’, 2002
Seminar Viewing

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None. The students leading the seminar will select relevant clips to discuss during the
seminar.

FRI NOV 25th | Tutorials by appointment

Online 10:00 – 11:30
Book your slot on Moodle.

WEEK 13

WED NOV 30th | Tutorials by appointment

Merchiston E 31 14:00-16:30
Book your slot on Moodle.

FRI DEC 2nd | Tutorials by appointment

Online 10:00 – 11:30
Book your slot on Moodle.

WEEK 14

WED DEC 7th | Report Statement Hand-in

FRI DEC 9th | Presentations of Report Statements [TBC]