Directorate of Studies 17 - Theatre, Film and Media Studies

Bachelor Theatre, Film and Media Studies (580 [2] - Version 2011)

Introductory and Orientation Period (16 ECTS)

Introduction to Theatre, Film and Media Studies (8 ECTS)

• EXAM STEOP: Module examination Introduction to Theatre, Film and Media Studies
• 170001 VO ( OV STEOP ) STEOP: Lecture Introduction to Theatre, Film and Media Studies

Forms of Theatre and Media Staging (8 ECTS)

• EXAM STEOP: Module examination Forms of Theatre and Media Staging
• 170002 VO ( OV STEOP ) STEOP: Lecture Forms of Theatre and Media Staging

Advanced Courses (41 ECTS)

Scientific Writing (8 ECTS)

Techniques of Scientific Writing

• 170110 UE Practical Course "Techniques of Scientific Work"
• 170111 UE Practical Course "Techniques of Scientific Work"
• 170112 UE Practical Course "Techniques of Scientific Work"

Scientific Writing and Presentation Skills

• 170113 UE Exercise Course Scientific Writing and Presentation Skills
• 170114 UE Exercise Course Scientific Writing and Presentation Skills
• 170115 UE Exercise Course Scientific Writing and Presentation Skills

Analysis (15 ECTS)

Performance and Staging Analysis

• 170120 UE Practical Course "Performance and Staging Analysis"
• 170121 UE Practical Course "Performance and Staging Analysis"
• 170122 UE Practical Course "Performance and Staging Analysis"

Film Analysis

• 170123 UE Practical Course "Film Analysis"
• 170124 UE Practical Course "Film Analysis"
• 170125 UE Practical Course "Film Analysis"

Media Analysis

• 170127 UE Practical Course "Media Analysis" - does knowledge create truth? Introduction into discourse- and collective symbol analysis
• 170128 UE Practical Course "Media Analysis" - Push this Button! - Choice and decision in medial formations
• 170129 UE Practical Course "Media Analysis" - On Plattforms. Theory, Aesthetics, and Critique

Theory (18 ECTS)

Film Theory

• 170133 PS Introductory Seminar Film Theory - Feminist Film Theories
• 170135 PS Introductory Seminar Film Theory - What is film?
• 170136 PS Introductory Seminar "Film Theory"

Media Theory

• 170137 PS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Media Theory. An Introduction
• 170138 PS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Rethinking Media. Introduction to Media Theory
• 170139 PS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Media Theory - An Introduction

Theatre Theory

• 170130 PS Introductory Seminar Theatre Theory
• 170131 PS Introductory Seminar Theatre Theory
• 170132 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre Theory"

Specialisation (33 ECTS)

Body, Staging, Interaction (11 ECTS)

Concepts and Techniques of Acting

• 170210 PS Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - Performing as human beings, monsters and furniture. Acting as a historical variable.
• 170211 PS Introductory Seminar Concepts and Techniques of Acting - Games, mediality and film
• 170212 PS Introductory Seminar Concepts and Techniques of Acting - Character Analysis

Body Practices and Gender Presentations

• 170213 UE Exercise Course Body Practices and Gender Presentations - Queering binaries - From the Critique of Representation to the Critique of the Subject in Digital Games
• 170214 UE Exercise Course Body Practices and Gender Presentations - Re:production. Biopolitical and aesthetic perspectives on the multiplication of the living
• 170215 UE Exercise Course Body Practices and Gender Presentations - Queer(ing) Performance. Gender aspects and queer practice of current productions at brut Vienna.

Narrative Orders (11 ECTS)

Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media

• 170220 PS Introductory Seminar Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media - Narrativity in theatre, film and media in the 19th and early 20th century.
• 170221 PS Introductory Seminar Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media - Actor-bound narrative in theatre, film and media
• 170222 PS Introductory Seminar Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media - Media Regime of Credibility: Conditions of Speaking and Sexual Violence

Media Transitions

• 170223 UE Practical Course "Media Transitions" - (Un)dead media
• 170224 UE Practical Course "Media Transitions" - Screenwriting research and narratology

Space Productions (11 ECTS)

Theatre and Media Spaces

• 170230 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces"
• 170231 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Cinematic Space. Theories and Analysis
• 170232 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Media|Spaces - The politics of space in the context of media

Staged Spaces

• 170233 UE Practical Course "Staged Spaces" - Augmented Realities: Media Spaces and Spatial Practices
• 170234 UE Practical Course "Staged Spaces" - Spaces of Transit
• 170235 UE Practical Course "Staged Spaces" - Artificial Spaces: An Introduction to Space in Theatre, Film and Computer Games

History of Theatre, Film and Media (20 ECTS)

Compulsory Module I (11 ECTS)

History of Film

• 170310 VO Lecture on the History of Film - Beginnings of film history

Discussion Course on the History of Theatre, Film and Media

• 170330 KO Discussion Course on the Lecture History of Theatre - Theatre under NS-regime: the 'other' theatre
• 170340 KO Discussion Course on the Lecture History of Film - Beginnings of film history

History of Media

• 170320 VO Lecture on the History of Media - Chiffre 1968: Media culture in transition

History of Theatre

• 170301 VO Lecture on the History of Theatre - Theatre under the NS-regime: Aspects of the 'other' theatre in the NS-state

Compulsory Module II (9 ECTS)

History of Theatre, Film and Media

• 170400 VO Comœdie, Komik, comedy. About producing laughter and having to laugh
• 170410 VO Medicine and the Arts
• 060012 VO Golems, Dybbuks and Wonder Rabbis - Kabbala in Film - (Jüdische Kulturgeschichte in Film und Medien)
• 060013 VO Strong Women in Front and Behind the Camera: Empowerment in Israeli Cinema - (Jüdische Kulturgeschichte in Film und Medien)
• 100019 VO Lecture course: Modern German Literature

Group of Elective Supplementary Modules (30 ECTS)

Theory and Aesthetics (10 ECTS)

• 170500 UE Nudging, gamification, big data: media technologies of contemporary gouvernmentality
• 170501 UE Considering Technology - An Introduction to Texts, Theories and Motifs of a Theory and Philosophy of Technology.
• 170502 UE Ecology of attention
• 170503 UE Synaesthesia as discourse - Figure of desire and thought between art, media and science
• 170504 UE Introduction to Comics Studies
• 170505 UE Venturous Bodies - Theories of Melodrama
• 170507 UE 'Economies' of Parody in the 19th Century

History (10 ECTS)

• 170510 UE Film and Propaganda - Anti-Nazi Films 1933-1945
• 170511 UE Dziga Vertov, The man with the movie camera
• 170512 UE 'Ghosts of Labor'? - Feature Films and its Images of Extras
• 170513 UE Festivities - Games - Theatre. - Community and Society in the Early Modern Era
• 170514 UE Media Ghosts
• 170515 UE Energies in the Arts
• 170516 UE Realism and protest
• 170517 UE Internet, social media and the counterculture of the 60s

Fields of Practice and Communication (10 ECTS)

• 170520 UE European University Film Award - How to discuss and evaluate (European) films
• 170521 UE Production processes and aesthetics of performance art
• 170522 UE Mediating, creating, financing culture - a practice-oriented approach towards the work of Viennese cultural associations
• 170523 UE SOUND Projects
• 170524 UE Mentoring-Workshop
• 170525 UE [ de en ] Contemporary Arthouse Cinema: Viennale
• 170526 UE The creative process - theories for practical implementation
• 170527 UE Digital Modeling of Theatre

Gender (10 ECTS)

• 170530 UE (Post-)Queer Cinema - Political and aesthetical dimensions of deviance
• 170531 UE Gender and media: an introduction
• 170532 UE Television and Gender - Critical perspectives on the intersection of two technologies of gouvernment

Global Perspectives (10 ECTS)

• 170540 UE Theatre and Transculturalism
• 170541 UE The exiled gaze

Director of Studies' Suggestions

Recommended Lectures

• 053335 VU [ en ] Special Techniques for Digital Film

Master Theatre, Film and Media Studies (583)

Theatre, Film and Media Cultures (21 ECTS)

MA 1.1 Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception (7 ECTS)

• 170600 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - 'The Author As Producer' and other texts
• 170601 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Masks/Games between rite and art
• 170602 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Jerzy Grotowski. Towards a poor theatre and art as vehicle
• 170603 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - In Catastrophic Times
• 160010 SE Edgar Poe and the musical theatre

MA 1.2 Processes of Theatricality and Mediality (7 ECTS)

• 170610 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - The 4 elements and the Arts
• 170611 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Digital music video clips
• 170612 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Media and Nostalgia
• 170613 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Audio-visual essays in film studies
• 160056 SE Opera history in Vienna - the first centuries (c. 1620-1815)

MA 1.3 Discourses and Methods (7 ECTS)

• 170620 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Feminist Film Theory: Film Gaze: Staring Eyes Disturb
• 170621 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Walter Benjamin: The work of art in the era of its technical reproducibility
• 170622 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Atmospherical Media
• 170623 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Theater, a Praxeology

Fields of Specialisation (21 ECTS)

MA 2.1 Specialisation 1 (7 ECTS)

MA 2.2 Specialisation 2 (7 ECTS)

MA 2.3 Specialisation 3 (7 ECTS)

Block of Elective Modules Fields of Research and Practice (40 ECTS)

MA 3.1 Historical an Theoretical Relations (10 ECTS)

• 170700 VO Sherlock Holmes & Sigmund Freud: The Science of Deduction - Lecture
• 170701 VO Sherlock Holmes & Sigmund Freud: The Science of Deduction - Lecture with interactive elements

MA 3.2 Aesthetics and Poetics (10 ECTS)

• 170710 UE Klaus Michael Grüber
• 170711 UE Expanded Cinema

MA 3.3 Project Research (10 ECTS)

• 170720 UE Discussing musical theatre
• 170721 UE Questions of class
• 170524 UE Mentoring-Workshop

MA 3.4 Artistic Research (10 ECTS)

• 170730 UE A motion picture exposition lab as counter-archival dissemination project for film PRESERVATION
• 170731 UE Contemporary Art Reflecting Medicine
• 170524 UE Mentoring-Workshop

MA 3.5 Intersectional Perspectives (10 ECTS)

• 170740 UE Du holde Kunst // Don't you know that you're toxic
• 170741 UE The Living Gods of Haiti - Maya Deren's ethnographic film-making

Master's Thesis Module (10 ECTS)

MA 4.1 Master's Thesis Exercise

• 170800 UE Master's Thesis Exercise
• 170801 UE Master's Thesis Exercise

MA 4.2 Reflection on Methods

• 170802 UE Reflection on methodologies
• 170820 UE Reflection on Methods - Scientific Writing using Creative Writing Tools

Director of Studies' Suggestions

Recommended Lectures

• 053335 VU [ en ] Special Techniques for Digital Film
• 210131 SE M10: Culture and Politics - Contemporary political iconoclasm and its history

Master History of Theatre, Film and Media (581) - discontinued

Master Theory of Theatre, Film and Media (582) - discontinued

Extension Curriculum Media Aesthetics in Everyday Life (171)

Lectures (6 ECTS)

• 170993 VO Image and Word Combinations in History and Theory
• 170994 VO Development of Media and Forms of Communication

Exercises (9 ECTS)

• 170995 UE Media Aesthetics in Everyday Life - Images and Texts
• 170996 UE media aesthetics in every day use
• 170997 UE media aesthetics in every day use
• 170998 UE Media Aesthetics in Everyday Life