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 REMOTE 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 REMOTE 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

• 170109 UE ( REMOTE ) Exercise Course "Techniques of Scientific Work"
• 170110 UE Exercise Course "Techniques of Scientific Work" - Practice of scientific work
• 170111 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"

Analysis (15 ECTS)

Performance and Staging Analysis

• 170120 UE Exercise Course "Performance and Staging Analysis"
• 170121 UE Exercise Course "Performance and Staging Analysis" - Scenes of dis-/order
• 170122 UE Exercise Course "Performance and Staging Analysis"

Film Analysis

• 170123 UE Exercise Course "Film Analysis"
• 170124 UE Exercise Course "Film Analysis" - Introduction to film analysis
• 170125 UE Exercise Course "Film Analysis"

Media Analysis

• 170126 UE Exercise Course "Media Analysis" - Social Media
• 170127 UE Exercise Course "Media Analysis" - Affect, the Mundane, Media
• 170128 UE Exercise Course "Media Analysis" - Feminist toolboxes and carrier bags

Theory (18 ECTS)

Theatre Theory

• 170130 PS Introductory Seminar Theatre Theory
• 170131 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre Theory"
• 170132 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre Theory" - Reflections on the State of the Theater

Film Theory

• 170133 PS Introductory Seminar "Film Theory" with Writing Workshop - Keeping the world in suspense. Things that film theory knows about the thriller
• 170134 PS Introductory Seminar "Film Theory" with Writing Workshop - Film manifests
• 170135 PS Introductory Seminar "Film Theory" with Writing Workshop - Feminist film theories
• 170136 PS Introductory Seminar Film Theory - Keeping the world in suspense. Things that film theory knows about the thriller

Media Theory

• 170137 PS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Gender Media Studies: Theories and Current Debates
• 170138 PS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Mediality and Theory
• 170139 PS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Media Theory as Format Theory: from Aby Warburg to the GIF

Specialisation (33 ECTS)

Body, Staging, Interaction (11 ECTS)

Concepts and Techniques of Acting

• 170210 PS Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - Theatre as a philosophical figure of thought
• 170211 PS Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - Suggestion and hypnotism - Acting Around 1900
• 170212 PS Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - Things perform. Object-Oriented Approaches in Contemporary Theater

Body Practices and Gender Presentations

• 170213 UE Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - On the history of artistic genres and their traces in the contemporary circus
• 170214 UE Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - Natural dramas and exoticizing writing of history: Identity in 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" - On affects and effects
• 170221 PS Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - Protest in the field of vision
• 170222 PS Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - Analysis of fictional characters in film and television

Media Transitions

• 170223 UE Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - Faciality of the Digital. On the aesthetics of the face in the age of digitalisation
• 170224 UE Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - Critical Theory and the Avantgarde
• 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" - Douglas Sirk and Melodrama
• 170231 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Theatre artists! On Feminist Historiography
• 170232 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Spaces in/of Music Videos

Staged Spaces

• 170233 UE Exercise Course "Staged Spaces"
• 170234 UE Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - City and countryside in film. Presentations of urban and rural spaces in African films since the Post-Independence Era
• 170235 UE Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - Decolonising the exhibition space
• 170236 UE Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - What is being performed? Space - staging/performance - audience

History of Theatre, Film and Media (20 ECTS)

History of Theatre (3 ECTS)

• 170301 VO Lecture: The History of Theatre - New concepts of authorship: Play development in theatre, dance and performance

History of Film (3 ECTS)

• 060012 VO Golem, Dybbuk and Lilith - Kabbalistic Elements in Popular Cinema
• 060028 VO From Dieterle to Zinnemann - Jewish Emigration in Hollywood
• 170310 VO Lecture: The History of Film - Film exile and exile film 1933-1945

History of Media (3 ECTS)

• 170320 VO Lecture: The History of Media - Essayism in film and media art
• 170322 VO Lecture on the History of Media - Media and religion. Chapters out of the history of media reflection

History of Theatre, Film and Media (9 ECTS)

• 170320 VO Lecture: The History of Media - Essayism in film and media art

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

• 170321 KO Discussion Course on the History of Media - Essayism in film and media art
• 170330 KO Discussion Course on the Lecture "History of theatre, film and media" - Media and religion. Chapters out of the history of media reflection

Compulsory Supplementary Module (30 ECTS)

Theory and Aesthetics (10 ECTS)

• 170497 UE Image / Criticism
• 170499 UE Doing things with Theory
• 170500 UE Podcasts
• 170501 UE "You press the button, we do the rest"
• 170502 UE Canceled! Ratioed! Drama! Politics on YouTube in the USA
• 170503 UE Flops! - Between box-office-success and aesthetic obstinacy
• 170504 UE (Textual) Processuality in theatre and performance - Stückentwicklungen und ihre szenischen und dramaturgischen Diskurspotentiale
• 170505 UE ChatGPT: Medium or intelligence?
• 170506 UE Relations of the Political - Materialism, Realism and Documentarism
• 170507 UE Not-just-human. Perspectives of post-anthropocenic aesthetics

History (10 ECTS)

• 010119 SE "Querdenker", Science Deniers, Enemies of Democracy- a political-ethical challenge. - Reading and socio-ethical discussion of the book "Gekränkte Freiheit - Aspekte des libertären Autoritarismus
• 170508 UE Theatre history. Focus on Vienna History Wiki. - Theatre historical basic research and wiki entries
• 170509 UE ( MIXED ) Concepts and techniques of acting
• 170510 UE Power and abuse in institutionalised theatre
• 170511 UE Ambivalence as an aesthetic experience: The black comedy
• 170513 UE Heiner Müller - postdramatic theatre in the DDR
• 170514 UE Pre-Code Hollywood: Genre, politics and gender in Hollywood cinema 1927-1934

Fields of Practice and Communication (10 ECTS)

• 170522 UE Dschungel Academy
• 170523 UE Productions Dramaturgy
• 170525 UE Writing about movies with Frieda Grafe
• 170545 VU From the West to the East and Back - Akira Kurosawa
• 170521 UE Stop-Motion Animation
• 170528 UE Cultural Management in practice and theory
• 170519 UE Peer Mentoring: First Practical Experience TFM 2023W
• 170520 UE Peer Mentoring: Advanced Experience TFM 2023W

Gender (10 ECTS)

• 170530 UE Du holde Kunst // Don't you know that you're toxic
• 170535 UE Film as anti-racist and feminist artistic practice on the fence
• 170536 UE From Paris is Burning to Pose - Changes in filmic representations of trans*, inter* and non-binary people

Global Perspectives (10 ECTS)

• 170542 UE [ en ] La Frontera - the aesthetics of the border in video, photography and performance art
• 170543 UE "German Rap is no Hip Hop." - On the performativity of Black Culture in the German-speaking area
• 170544 UE ( MIXED ) Performing MyOther. Exoticising and self-exoticising as performative practices

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" - Sofia Coppola's film aesthetics
• 170601 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Melodrama

MA 1.2 Processes of Theatricality and Mediality (7 ECTS)

• 170610 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Staging Race and Gender in the Early Modern
• 170611 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Being on the road: Road Movies around the globe
• 170612 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Alexander Kluge: Encyclopedia of experience

MA 1.3 Discourses and Methods (7 ECTS)

• 170620 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Narrating, remembering, inventing lives - Mediations and collections of diasporic experience
• 170621 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Slow(-ing) Down Science: Re-imaginging science
• 170622 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Kracauer - Benjamin - Adorno
• 170623 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Family. A Media De/Construction
• 170624 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Theories of media practice

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 Media structures of digital operative space - Lecture
• 170701 VO Media structures 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 Annette Michselson: Thinking in films. - Close Readings, Distant Projections
• 170713 UE Water, Ship(wrecked) and the Sublime

MA 3.3 Project Research (10 ECTS)

• 170721 UE Theatre-historiographic archive research on 19th century theatre
• 170714 UE Ways of interpreting. Contemporary musical theatre
• 170722 UE Academic writing using creative methods
• 170715 UE Sounds of Belonging: Negotiating "Austrianness" in Postwar Radio

MA 3.4 Artistic Research (10 ECTS)

• 170739 UE "The right to have rights" - Video art in the context of current political discourses
• 170733 UE Live Action Role Play
• 170545 VU From the West to the East and Back - Akira Kurosawa
• 170738 UE I AIN'T NO MUSEUM: CHEWING THE PHONE ARCHIVE - Artistic Research x Filmmuseum
• 170535 UE Film as anti-racist and feminist artistic practice on the fence
• 170499 UE Doing things with Theory
• 170519 UE Peer Mentoring: First Practical Experience TFM 2023W
• 170520 UE Peer Mentoring: Advanced Experience TFM 2023W

MA 3.5 Intersectional Perspectives (10 ECTS)

• 170741 UE (Dis-)Empowerment of laughter or Humor and Agency
• 170742 UE Compost Turn - Burial and performance through time
• 170743 UE [ en ] Games as social critique

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 Reflection on 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 [ en ] Media Aesthetics in Everyday Use - (Self-)Care in Media
• 170996 UE Media Aesthetics in Everyday Use - Analog Photography
• 170997 UE Media Aesthetics in Everyday Use
• 170998 UE [ en ] Media Aesthetics in Everyday Use - Introduction to Game Studies
• 170999 UE ( MIXED ) Media Aesthetics in Everyday Use - "Pics or it didn't happen" - Identity as narration and the role of (social) media in self-creation