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 ( MIXED OV STEOP ) STEOP: Lecture "Introduction to Theatre, Film and Media Studies"

Forms of Theatre and Media Staging (8 ECTS)

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

Advanced Courses (41 ECTS)

Scientific Writing (8 ECTS)

Techniques of Scientific Writing

• 170110 UE ( ON-SITE ) Exercise Course "Techniques of Scientific Work"
• 170111 UE ( REMOTE ) Exercise Course "Techniques of Scientific Work"
• 170112 UE ( ON-SITE ) Exercise Course "Techniques of Scientific Work"

Scientific Writing and Presentation Skills

• 170113 UE ( ON-SITE ) Exercise Course "Academic Writing and Presentation Skills" - Writing Project Bachelor Paper
• 170114 UE ( ON-SITE ) Exercise Course "Academic Writing and Presentation Skills" - Writing Project Bachelor Paper

Analysis (15 ECTS)

Performance and Staging Analysis

• 170120 UE ( ON-SITE ) Exercise Course "Performance and Staging Analysis"
• 170121 UE ( ON-SITE ) Exercise Course "Performance and Staging Analysis"
• 170122 UE ( ON-SITE ) Exercise Course "Performance and Staging Analysis"

Film Analysis

• 170123 UE ( ON-SITE ) Exercise Course "Film Analysis"
• 170124 UE ( ON-SITE ) Exercise Course "Film Analysis"
• 170125 UE ( ON-SITE ) Exercise Course "Film Analysis"

Media Analysis

• 170126 UE ( ON-SITE ) Exercise Course "Media Analysis"
• 170127 UE ( REMOTE ) Exercise Course "Media Analysis" - Medien der 1980er Jahre
• 170128 UE ( REMOTE ) Exercise Course "Media Analysis" - Introduction to Situated App Studies

Theory (18 ECTS)

Theatre Theory

• 170130 PS ( ON-SITE ) Introductory Seminar Theatre Theory
• 170131 PS ( MIXED ) Introductory Seminar "Theatre Theory" with Writing Workshop
• 170132 PS ( ON-SITE ) Introductory Seminar "Theatre Theory"

Film Theory

• 170133 PS ( ON-SITE ) Introductory Seminar "Film Theory" with Writing Workshop - A Joyful Science? Comedy of/in Film Theory
• 170134 PS ( MIXED ) Introductory Seminar "Film Theory" - EUFA between fact and fiction - Introduction to current forms of the documentary in European cinema
• 170135 PS ( ON-SITE ) Introductory Seminar "Film Theory" with Writing Workshop - Big Screen, Dream Screen

Media Theory

• 170137 PS ( ON-SITE ) Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Media theory as format theory
• 170138 PS ( ON-SITE ) Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" with Writing Workshop - Introduction to media philosophy
• 170139 PS ( ON-SITE ) Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Critical media theories

Specialisation (33 ECTS)

Body, Staging, Interaction (11 ECTS)

Concepts and Techniques of Acting

• 170210 PS ( ON-SITE ) Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - Hanswurst and Bernardon
• 170211 PS ( ON-SITE ) Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting"
• 170212 PS ( ON-SITE ) Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - the digital as deus ex machina

Body Practices and Gender Presentations

• 170213 UE ( ON-SITE ) Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - On Drags and Queens. Queer perspectives on European theatre history
• 170214 UE ( ON-SITE ) Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - Categories of the "other" in contemporary dance and performance
• 170215 UE ( ON-SITE ) Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - Stars

Narrative Orders (11 ECTS)

Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media

• 170220 PS ( ON-SITE ) Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - The graduality of the beginning
• 170221 PS [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - 'VIRTUAL' Realities - Between Postcolonial Media Activism and Black Lives Matter
• 170222 PS ( ON-SITE ) Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - Ambivalence as aesthetic experience: the Black comedy

Media Transitions

• 170223 UE ( REMOTE ) Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - Icon, Index and Symbol - Historical and contemporary perspectives of media semiotics
• 170224 UE ( REMOTE ) Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - Digital forms of the documentary
• 170225 UE ( MIXED ) Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - Cinema Expanded

Space Productions (11 ECTS)

Theatre and Media Spaces

• 170230 PS ( MIXED ) Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Spaces and Spatiality in Music Videos
• 170231 PS ( MIXED ) Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Lichtkunst/Kunstlicht im Theater- und Ausstellungsraum
• 170232 PS ( ON-SITE ) Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Introduction into Contemporary European Cinema

Staged Spaces

• 170233 UE ( ON-SITE ) Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - Places of Protest in France 1968
• 170234 UE ( ON-SITE ) Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - (Con)-Figurations of filmic immersion
• 170235 UE ( REMOTE ) Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - The forward-looking scenic basic research by Jürgen Gosch, Johannes Schütz and Johan Simons

History of Theatre, Film and Media (20 ECTS)

History of Theatre (3 ECTS)

• 170301 VO ( ON-SITE ) Lecture: The History of Theatre

History of Film (3 ECTS)

• 170310 VO ( REMOTE ) Lecture: The History of Film - Vampires! From Nosferatu to Netflix.
• 060024 VO ( REMOTE ) Images of Horror - the presentation of the Shoah in international feature films
• 060048 VO ( MIXED ) High Noon in Vienna - Fred Zinnemanns Jewish Environment

History of Media (3 ECTS)

• 170320 VO ( REMOTE ) Lecture: The History of Media - Genesis of digital operative space - Media theoretical approaches

History of Theatre, Film and Media (9 ECTS)

• 170400 VO ( ON-SITE ) Excitable Tales - Perspective, empathy and gender in film, media and art
• 170401 VO ( REMOTE ) Methods of Theatre, Film and Media Studies

Discussion Course on the History of Theatre, Film and Media (2 ECTS)

• 170330 KO ( REMOTE ) Discussion Course on the Lecture "History of theatre, film and media" - Vampires! From Nosferatu to Netflix.
• 170340 KO ( ON-SITE ) Discussion Course on the Lecture "History of Theatre"

Compulsory Supplementary Module (30 ECTS)

Theory and Aesthetics (10 ECTS)

• 170499 UE ( ON-SITE ) Robert Siodmak and the Film Noir
• 170500 UE ( ON-SITE ) Dramatic styles in radio plays: Ingeborg Bachmann
• 170501 UE ( ON-SITE ) Between fiction and documentary - exploring the hybrid forms
• 170502 UE ( ON-SITE ) "And the world’s your oyster. So swallow it!" - Theorizing Underground Cinema
• 010103 SE ( MIXED ) Film and Religion: American Gods

History (10 ECTS)

• 170505 UE ( ON-SITE ) Constructivist mise-en scène: theatre media masses
• 170506 UE ( ON-SITE ) The horror film - History and style
• 170507 UE ( MIXED ) The Reel Thing - History and practises of film preservation

Fields of Practice and Communication (10 ECTS)

• 170509 UE ( REMOTE ) Cultural management in theory and practice
• 170510 UE ( ON-SITE ) Viennale 2021 - New perspectives on contemporary cinema
• 170511 UE ( ON-SITE ) DSCHUNGEL Akademie
• 170512 UE ( ON-SITE ) sixpackfilm - a sales model
• 170514 UE ( ON-SITE ) Television and gender - Dis/Continuities of media constellations, interpellations and practices
• 170520 UE ( ON-SITE ) Mentoring-Workshop

Gender (10 ECTS)

• 170524 UE ( MIXED ) Feminisms, Gender Perspectives and Queerness in Postcolonial Media Scopes
• 170530 UE ( ON-SITE ) (In-)Credibility in cases of sexualized violence
• 170531 UE ( ON-SITE ) Non_Visibility and Mediality of the Face
• 170532 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Science Fiction and the Female Body

Global Perspectives (10 ECTS)

• 170543 UE ( ON-SITE ) Playing with gender - Gender in analog and digital games
• 170541 UE ( ON-SITE ) Nonhuman Theatre? - East Asian Perspectives
• 170542 UE ( MIXED ) Utopia/Dystopia
• 170540 UE ( ON-SITE ) Multi perspective - Digital facticity. About Science, Narration, Identity and Algorithm.
• 070262 VO ( REMOTE ) Lecture series - Corona as an interdisciplinary challenge

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)

• 060022 SE [ de en he ] ( ON-SITE ) Israeli Cinema as Cultural History: Israeli History on the big and on the small screen
• 170600 SE ( MIXED ) MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Der orale Raum. Aus den Innereien der Performancekunst
• 170601 SE ( ON-SITE ) MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Fragile situations. Effects of contemporary theatre and dance performances
• 170602 SE ( REMOTE ) MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - In-between spaces, in-between times. Sofia Coppola's film aesthetics
• 170603 SE ( ON-SITE ) MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Female photojournalists: From Isonzo to Abu Ghraib.
• 170604 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Walter Benjamin and Alexander Kluge

MA 1.2 Processes of Theatricality and Mediality (7 ECTS)

• 170610 SE ( REMOTE ) MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Harry Houdini - Illusionist/Escape Artist
• 170611 SE ( REMOTE ) MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Future Media in Film
• 170612 SE ( MIXED ) MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Intractable Choreographies
• 170614 SE ( REMOTE ) MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Image and Perception

MA 1.3 Discourses and Methods (7 ECTS)

• 170620 SE ( ON-SITE ) MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Mediality and practice
• 170621 SE ( ON-SITE ) MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Theatre Studies: Current Readings
• 170622 SE ( ON-SITE ) MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Politics of Media II
• 170623 SE ( MIXED ) MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Die Verhüllung als Transformation in den Künsten: Christo und Jeanne Claude
• 170624 SE ( ON-SITE ) MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Radical pedagogy and experimental methods of Media Studies

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 ( REMOTE ) Media Marx - An introduction to Cultural Studies - Lecture
• 170701 VO ( REMOTE ) Media/Marx - An introduction to Cultural Studies - Lecture with interactive elements

MA 3.2 Aesthetics and Poetics (10 ECTS)

• 170710 UE ( ON-SITE ) The.Heldenplatz.Thing. (© OFF Theater) and Mein Kampf. - Plays by Thomas Bernhard and George Tabori and current stagings
• 170712 UE ( ON-SITE ) "The Frankfurt Girls" - Feminist Film and Cultural Theory in the Tradition of the Frankfurt School

MA 3.3 Project Research (10 ECTS)

• 170720 UE ( ON-SITE ) On the Digital Narration of History - Partizipativer Einblick in Methodik und Forschungsfragen des Projekts RegioBioGraph
• 170721 UE ( ON-SITE ) Discussing musical theatre

MA 3.4 Artistic Research (10 ECTS)

• 170731 UE [ en ] ( REMOTE ) Black visuality, performance, and performativity - Research as practice, practice as research
• 170732 UE ( ON-SITE ) Media of History - Dialectical images and artistic research
• 170733 UE ( ON-SITE ) REFRAMING VISUAL ENCOUNTERS: PORTRAITS | Artistic Research x Filmmuseum

MA 3.5 Intersectional Perspectives (10 ECTS)

• 170740 UE Critical Climate - Climates of Critique
• 170741 UE ( ON-SITE ) Becoming Caring. - Media Ecologies of Responsibility

Master's Thesis Module (10 ECTS)

MA 4.1 Master's Thesis Exercise

• 170801 UE ( MIXED ) Master's Thesis Exercise

MA 4.2 Reflection on Methods

• 170820 UE ( ON-SITE ) Reflection on Methods - Academic writing using creative methods
• 170821 UE ( ON-SITE ) Reflection on Methods - Academic writing using creative methods

Extension Curriculum Media Aesthetics in Everyday Life (171)

Lectures (6 ECTS)

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

Exercises (9 ECTS)

• 170995 UE ( REMOTE ) Media aesthetics in everyday use - Images and texts
• 170996 UE ( ON-SITE ) Media Aesthetics in Everyday Use - Analog Photography
• 170997 UE ( MIXED ) Media Aesthetics in Everyday Use
• 170998 UE ( REMOTE ) Media Aesthetics in Everyday Use
• 170999 UE ( ON-SITE ) Media Aesthetics in Everyday Use - Theatre in the Digital Space