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 COMM 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 COMM 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 Exercise Course "Techniques of Scientific Work"
• 170112 UE Exercise Course "Techniques of Scientific Work"

Scientific Writing and Presentation Skills

• 170113 UE Exercise Course "Academic Writing and Presentation Skills" - Writing Project Bachelor Paper
• 170114 UE Exercise Course "Academic Writing and Presentation Skills" - Writing Project Bachelor Paper
• 170115 UE Exercise Course "Academic Writing and Presentation Skills" - Writing Project Bachelor Paper

Analysis (15 ECTS)

Performance and Staging Analysis

• 170120 UE Exercise Course "Performance and Staging Analysis"
• 170121 UE Exercise Course "Performance and Staging Analysis" - Testimonial Practices and Theatre of Witness
• 170122 UE Exercise Course "Performance and Staging Analysis"

Film Analysis

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

Media Analysis

• 170126 UE Exercise Course "Media Analysis"
• 170127 UE Exercise Course "Media Analysis" - Affect, the Mundane, Media
• 170128 UE Exercise Course "Media Analysis" - Analogue photography for media scholars

Theory (18 ECTS)

Theatre Theory

• 170130 PS Introductory Seminar Theatre Theory - The Scene(s) of the Street
• 170131 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre Theory"
• 170132 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre Theory" - Dramaturgies of Disaster

Film Theory

• 170133 PS Introductory Seminar "Film Theory" with Writing Workshop - A Joyful Science? Comedy of/in Film Theory
• 170134 PS Introductory Seminar "Film Theory" with Writing Workshop - Critical Theory and Film Studies
• 170135 PS Introductory Seminar "Film Theory" with Writing Workshop - Attraction and Narration: Theories on Early Cinema

Media Theory

• 170137 PS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Television/Art
• 170138 PS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Mediality and Theory
• 170139 PS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Media theory for beginners

Specialisation (33 ECTS)

Body, Staging, Interaction (11 ECTS)

Concepts and Techniques of Acting

• 170210 PS Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - Chorus and Gender
• 170211 PS Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - Venturous Bodies - Theories of Melodrama
• 170212 PS Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - Technicised Illusions: Stage magic around 1900

Body Practices and Gender Presentations

• 170213 UE Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - Body Art in the Archive / Interdepences between performance, archive and new media since the 1960s
• 170214 UE Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - Uprising feminism in contemporary dance and performance
• 170215 UE [ en ] Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - Science Fiction and the Female Body

Narrative Orders (11 ECTS)

Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media

• 170220 PS Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - Avant-garde theater in Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine, early Soviet Union) in the first third of the 20th century in the context of the European theater reform
• 170221 PS Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - Essay film and video essay as situated argumentation
• 170222 PS ( REMOTE ) Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - The Aristotle's Nightmare: Transmedia Stroytelling

Media Transitions

• 170223 UE Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - Crude Connections - The construction of conspiracy theories in the digital age
• 170224 UE Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - Media of magic from antique temples to digital technology
• 170225 UE Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - (Medial) Ecologies of the precarious

Space Productions (11 ECTS)

Theatre and Media Spaces

• 170230 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - The graduality of the beginning
• 170231 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Affect and Sentiment. Emotions and the Making of Subjects in 18th Century Theatre
• 170232 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Medial post-Sovjet protest cultures

Staged Spaces

• 170233 UE Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - Stanley Kubrick's Films
• 170234 UE Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - Image Spaces: Visual Artists in Scenography
• 170235 UE [ en ] Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - The Colour Blue: Art, Film and Literature

History of Theatre, Film and Media (20 ECTS)

History of Theatre (3 ECTS)

• 170301 VO Lecture: The History of Theatre - Theatre and Rationalism. Dynamics in the European Theatre of the 18th Century. Lecture on theatre history

History of Film (3 ECTS)

• 170310 VO Lecture: The History of Film - Austrian Music Film: from the beginnings to 1938
• 060027 VO From Caligari to Hitler - Propaganda as Entertainment
• 060028 VO The "Neo-Ufa" - Jewish lifeworlds in contemporary German feature films
• 060023 VO Film and Music Exile - Film Noir and Jazz

History of Media (3 ECTS)

• 170320 VO Lecture: The History of Media - Neo-Avantgarde and early auteur cinema

History of Theatre, Film and Media (9 ECTS)

• 060027 VO From Caligari to Hitler - Propaganda as Entertainment
• 170400 VO Methods of Theatre, Film and Media Studies - Asking questions, selecting phenomena, designing research - Lecture series

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

• 170330 KO Discussion Course on the Lecture "History of theatre, film and media" - Austrian Music Film: from the beginnings to 1938
• 170340 KO Discussion Course on the Lecture "History of Theatre, Film and Media" - Discussion Course on the Lecture Series "Methods of Theatre, Film and Media Studies"

Compulsory Supplementary Module (30 ECTS)

Theory and Aesthetics (10 ECTS)

• 170499 UE Digital sustainability? Critical ecologies and ecologies of criticism
• 170500 UE Breathing and Smelling in the Performing Arts. - Queer Feminist and Decolonial Perspectives
• 170501 UE "Pics or it didn't happen" - Narrative identity and the role of (social) media in self-presentation
• 170502 UE The Art of Failure
• 170505 UE Aesthetics of Relations and Decolonial Thought in Cinema
• 170506 UE Broken Things. From a Throwaway Society to Cultures of Repair
• 090105 PS [ de en ] "Was the film or the book better?" Discourses on filming literature

History (10 ECTS)

• 170507 UE Intelligence is always artificial. - A media history of an idea of thinking
• 170508 UE Tapp und Tastkino - Women's Cinema in Austria
• 170513 UE Gothic Cinema. Cultural and film historical perspectives on the cinema of the Uncanny

Fields of Practice and Communication (10 ECTS)

• 170509 UE Cultural management in theory and practice
• 170510 UE Viennale 2022: Figurations of the Present
• 170511 UE The Reel Thing: History and practise of film preservation
• 170512 UE Accompanying the Wien Modern Festival 2022
• 170520 UE Mentoring-Workshop
• 170524 UE The Fields of Practice in and around Theatre Studies

Gender (10 ECTS)

• 170530 UE Theatre and politics: The Fairness Process
• 170531 UE [ en ] Senses and Affects in Media
• 170532 UE [ en ] Curating Diversity and Inclusion in Dance and Performing Arts
• 170742 UE Sexual difference and male dominion

Global Perspectives (10 ECTS)

• 170540 UE City and Countryside in Film. - Presentations of Urban and Rural Spaces in African Films since the Post-Independence Era
• 170542 UE The Diseases of the Society, the Society of the Diseases. - Constructing dis/ability, trauma, and age
• 170543 UE EUFA between fact and fiction: contemporary forms of film in European cinema

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" - Auto-Rituals and Death Processions
• 170601 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Elements of a picture theory in the case of Walter Benjamin and Georges Didi-Huberman
• 170602 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Theories and Histories of Performance Art

MA 1.2 Processes of Theatricality and Mediality (7 ECTS)

• 170610 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Self, Performance, Other
• 170611 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Theatre under Pressure
• 170612 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Josephine Baker in Vienna, or: intersectional theatre research, 1928/2022
• 170614 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Ukraine and Avant-Garde

MA 1.3 Discourses and Methods (7 ECTS)

• 170620 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Eco-Visions
• 170621 SE ( REMOTE ) MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Audiovisual and /as psychoanalytical thinking
• 170622 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Constellations of Critical Theory
• 170623 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Dirt and filth

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 Genesis of digital operative space - Media theoretical approaches - Lecture
• 170701 VO Genesis of digital operative space - Digital facticity. About Science, Narration, Identity and Algorithm - Lecture with interactive elements

MA 3.2 Aesthetics and Poetics (10 ECTS)

• 170712 UE Gates and Doors: On the Threshold of Open and Close
• 170714 UE Forms of narration. - Current Stagings of Music Theatre

MA 3.3 Project Research (10 ECTS)

• 170721 UE Past and forgotten lives. - To visualize artistic biographies of a cosmopolitan Vienna up to the Holocaust.
• 170722 UE Max Ophüls in Hollywood

MA 3.4 Artistic Research (10 ECTS)

• 170733 UE FINDING SPACES OF ATTRACTION | Artistic Research x Filmmuseum
• 170520 UE Mentoring-Workshop

MA 3.5 Intersectional Perspectives (10 ECTS)

• 170739 UE Media histories of the witch-hunt
• 170740 UE Enacted reality/ies: Introduction to Karen Barad's agential realism
• 170741 UE Inter- and Transsexual Athletes - Opportunity or Threat for Fairness and Gender Equity in Women's Sports?

Master's Thesis Module (10 ECTS)

MA 4.1 Master's Thesis Exercise

• 170801 UE Master's Thesis Exercise

MA 4.2 Reflection on Methods

• 170820 UE Reflection on Methods - Academic writing using creative methods
• 170821 UE Reflection on Methods - Academic writing using creative methods

Extension Curriculum Media Aesthetics in Everyday Life (171)

Lectures (6 ECTS)

• 170993 VO Image and Word Combinations in History and Theory - Forms of experience of photographic media using the example of film and cinema
• 170994 VO ( MIXED ) Development of Media and Forms of Communication

Exercises (9 ECTS)

• 170995 UE Media Aesthetics in Everyday Use - Radiophonic Theories of the 1920s
• 170996 UE Media Aesthetics in Everyday Use - Analog Photography
• 170997 UE Media Aesthetics in Everyday Use
• 170998 UE Media Aesthetics in Everyday Use - Did that really happen? - Issues of Authenticity and Indexicality in Observational Documentary
• 170999 UE Media Aesthetics in Everyday Use - Possibilities of Participation. Inclusion and Aesthetics.Theatre in the Digital Space.