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

• 170109 UE ( REMOTE ) Exercise Course "Techniques of Scientific Work"
• 170110 UE Exercise Course "Techniques of Scientific Work" - Practice of scientific work
• 170111 UE ( MIXED ) 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 ( REMOTE ) Exercise Course "Academic Writing and Presentation Skills"

Analysis (15 ECTS)

Performance and Staging Analysis

• 170120 UE ( MIXED ) Exercise Course "Performance and Staging Analysis"
• 170121 UE Exercise Course "Performance and Staging Analysis" - "Poison in Jest" On the relation of theatre and death
• 170122 UE Exercise Course "Performance and Staging Analysis"

Film Analysis

• 170123 UE Exercise Course "Film Analysis" - THE FAVOURITE
• 170124 UE Exercise Course "Film Analysis" - The contemporary horror film
• 170125 UE Exercise Course "Film Analysis"

Media Analysis

• 170126 UE Exercise Course "Media Analysis" - Attachments. Images of Return in Film and Literature
• 170127 UE Exercise Course "Media Analysis" - Affect, the Mundane, Media
• 170128 UE Exercise Course "Media Analysis" - Le Grain de La Voix: Performativity and mediality of the voice
• 170129 UE Exercise Course Media Analysis - Aesthetic Characteristics of Digitality

Theory (18 ECTS)

Theatre Theory

• 170004 PS ( MIXED ) Introductory Seminar "Theatre Theory"
• 170130 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre Theory"
• 170131 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre Theory"
• 170132 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre Theory"

Film Theory

• 170133 PS Introductory Seminar "Film Theory" - Cinema at Court. Film theory's procedures between courtroom drama and filmic evidence
• 170134 PS Introductory Seminar "Film Theory" - Film theory of the avant-garde
• 170135 PS Introductory Seminar "Film Theory" - Key Concepts of Post Cinema

Media Theory

• 170137 PS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Media Theories meet Gender Theories meet Postcolonial Theories
• 170138 PS Introductory Seminar "Media 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 ( MIXED ) Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - Current perspectives on the theory and practice of dramaturgy
• 170211 PS Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - Theatrum mundi - Representation in the 17th century
• 170212 PS ( MIXED ) Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - Kurz-Bernardon

Body Practices and Gender Presentations

• 170213 UE Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - Theatre artists! On Feminist Historiography
• 170214 UE Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - Who owns the internet? Manosphere, Anti/Feminism and Digital Fascism
• 170215 UE Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - Maleness and male characters in film

Narrative Orders (11 ECTS)

Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media

• 170220 PS Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - Cultures of Schaulust
• 170221 PS ( MIXED ) Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - TikTok Cultures
• 170222 PS Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - Theories of Narration und Screenwriting Studies

Media Transitions

• 170223 UE Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - Photojournalism in feature films
• 170224 UE Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - Class Matters: Remediation of Comics and Class
• 170225 UE Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - Ecologies of Precariousness - Care, Difference, Transformation

Space Productions (11 ECTS)

Theatre and Media Spaces

• 170230 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Reflections on Space
• 170231 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Behind the Fourth Wall: Analytical Frameworks in Theatre Studies
• 170232 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Aesthetics of the Digital

Staged Spaces

• 170233 UE Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - Politics of Belonging: The Nation and the Global Village
• 170234 UE Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - "Media of attraction"
• 170235 UE Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - The Hills Are Alive: Spaces of musical theatre entertainment

History of Theatre, Film and Media (20 ECTS)

History of Theatre (3 ECTS)

• 170301 VO Lecture: The History of Theatre - Theatre in the Weimar Republic

History of Film (3 ECTS)

• 170310 VO Lecture: The History of Film - What was (Post-)Cinema?
• 060027 VO From Caligari to Hitler - Propaganda as Entertainment

History of Media (3 ECTS)

• 170311 VO Lecture on the History of Media - Queering Home: Postdigital Politics of Care
• 170320 VO Lecture: The History of Theatre, Film and Media - Fluxus and auteur film - art processes of the 60s

History of Theatre, Film and Media (9 ECTS)

• 170320 VO Lecture: The History of Theatre, Film and Media - Fluxus and auteur film - art processes of the 60s
• 060027 VO From Caligari to Hitler - Propaganda as Entertainment
• 010109 VO ( REMOTE ) From Mormon TikTok to Elden Ring: Religion and Media in the 21st century

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

• 170322 KO Discussion Course on the History of Theatre, Film and Media - Fluxus and auteur film - art processes of the 60s

Compulsory Supplementary Module (30 ECTS)

Theory and Aesthetics (10 ECTS)

• 170496 UE ( MIXED ) Doing things with theory
• 170497 UE Televisuality
• 170498 UE ( MIXED ) Ghost Work in the Realm of Images - Basics and Effects of Machine Vision
• 170500 UE History, Theory and Analysis of the Soundtrack
• 170503 UE Video art and the unconscious
• 170504 UE Pure acting. Sandra Hüllers theatre and film works
• 010119 SE Artificial intelligence and democracy - ethical perspectives

History (10 ECTS)

• 170508 UE Introduction to the History of Ukrainian Cinema
• 170509 UE The modern horror film - Horror from the Far East
• 170512 UE 1926. Dramaturgy on the edge of time
• 170513 UE Crowdsourcing. In-depth research into forgotten actors in the Viennese theater scene of the 1930s.

Fields of Practice and Communication (10 ECTS)

• 170519 UE Peer Mentoring: First Practical Experience TFM 2024W
• 170520 UE Peer Mentoring: Advanced Experience TFM 2024W
• 170521 UE Writing about cinema with Frieda Grafe
• 170528 UE Cultural Management in practice and theory

Gender (10 ECTS)

• 170535 UE Political Reflections in the Camera Eye
• 170539 UE Feminist Spectacle after Florentina Holzinger
• 170540 UE Documenting Queers/Queering Documents - with an excursion to Prague/Brno to the Mezipatra Film Festival in Nov. 2024
• 170541 UE (Audio-)visual depictions of birth

Global Perspectives (10 ECTS)

• 170542 UE Global Post Conflict Cinema and its representations in film
• 170543 UE [ en ] Games as social critique
• 170546 UE Escaped from the harem - exoticized/exoticizing female dancers in modernity and their reception toda

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" - Time and temporality in the films of Jim Jarmusch
• 170601 SE ( MIXED ) MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Digital image violence
• 170602 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - In Catastrophic Times
• 170603 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Self, Performance, Other
• 170604 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Heldenplatz & Co. Antisemitism and National Socialism on Stage

MA 1.2 Processes of Theatricality and Mediality (7 ECTS)

• 170610 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Mask
• 170611 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Mediality of Disorder
• 170612 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - The intricacies of lightness: Filmmaker Joan Micklin Silver between New Hollywood and TV Movies
• 170613 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Iconoclash

MA 1.3 Discourses and Methods (7 ECTS)

• 170620 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Race and/as/after technology
• 170621 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Cinema in the Anthropocene
• 170622 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Footprints: Aesthetic Anatomy
• 170623 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Hybrid Agencies: Theory and narrative fictions
• 170624 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Just don't be yourself. On Authenticity

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 Benjamin, Kluge, Godard & Co - Lecture
• 170701 VO Benjamin, Kluge, Godard & Co - Lecture with interactive elements

MA 3.2 Aesthetics and Poetics (10 ECTS)

• 170504 UE Pure acting. Sandra Hüllers theatre and film works
• 170708 UE Amazons of the Avant-Garde
• 170710 UE Politics of Suspense - The influence of the films of Alfred Hitchcock
• 170711 UE Val Lewton - The Reality of Terror

MA 3.3 Project Research (10 ECTS)

• 170513 UE Crowdsourcing. In-depth research into forgotten actors in the Viennese theater scene of the 1930s.
• 170713 UE Academic Writing with creative methods
• 170714 UE Conversations about Musical Theatre
• 170715 UE Sounds of Belonging II: 'Exhibiting' Austrian Postwar Radio in the Museum

MA 3.4 Artistic Research (10 ECTS)

• 170496 UE ( MIXED ) Doing things with theory
• 170498 UE ( MIXED ) Ghost Work in the Realm of Images - Basics and Effects of Machine Vision
• 170519 UE Peer Mentoring: First Practical Experience TFM 2024W
• 170520 UE Peer Mentoring: Advanced Experience TFM 2024W
• 170739 UE ( MIXED ) "What is your name?" - artistic interpretations of the interview/portrait genres
• 170740 UE IN A PROTEST STATE OF MIND! Artistic Research x Filmmuseum

MA 3.5 Intersectional Perspectives (10 ECTS)

• 170741 UE East African Media Histories
• 170742 UE ( MIXED ) Abuse of Power in Cultural Organisations - structural foundations and counter strategies

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: Theory - History - Practice (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 Development of Media and Forms of Communication

Exercises (9 ECTS)

• 170995 UE [ en ] Media Aesthetics: Theory - History - Practice - Intimacy and Care in Media
• 170996 UE Media Aesthetics: Theory - History - Practice - Analog Photography
• 170997 UE Media Aesthetics: Theory - History - Practice - Sound in history, theory and practice
• 170998 UE Media Aesthetics: Theory - History - Practice - Influencers
• 170999 UE ( MIXED ) Media Aesthetics: Theory - History - Practice - Creative Writing - Theory and Practice