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" - Aesthetics of the In-Between: Sofia Coppola's Cinema of the Liminal
• 170601 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - "If they move, kill'em!"- The Films by Sam Peckinpah
• 170602 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Festwochen-Campus
• 170603 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Scenes of social mobility: Life Genres, Impasse, Infrastructures. Lecture Course Lauren Berlant
• 160016 SE Music and Violence

MA 1.2 Processes of Theatricality and Mediality (7 ECTS)

• 170610 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Crowd Intelligence, Open Source, Statistical Truth and Machine Learning from a historical-critical perspective
• 170611 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Pollesch's Theatre
• 170613 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Technologies of surveying and surveillance
• 170612 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Theatre, class, gender
• 070356 SE Media and Gender in Austrofascism
• 143008 SE African Metropoles in Short Stories

MA 1.3 Discourses and Methods (7 ECTS)

• 170621 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Cinema in the Anthropocene
• 170620 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - "I am the very model" - Marginality and Repertoire
• 170622 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Mediality, Micropolitics, Concern
• 170623 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Dirt and filth
• 080123 VU M120 Media, Discourse and Representation: What is critique? - Cultural forms of argumentation and social configuration.

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 [ en ] Performance Ethnography: Fieldwork in West Africa - Lecture
• 170701 VO [ en ] Ecological Performance - Lecture with interactive elements

MA 3.2 Aesthetics and Poetics (10 ECTS)

• 170535 UE Production dramaturgy
• 170707 UE The Critical Museum and Interacting Art
• 170708 UE Academic Practice on, with and in Comics through the Example of Autobiographical Storytelling
• 141239 SE Graphic Novels and Cartoons in the Arab World - An Interplay of Text and Image
• 010038 SE [ en ] Feminist Hermeneutics: Atwood through the eye of Kristeva
• 020045 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Interdisciplinary Research for Master Degree Programme
• 135824 KO Film Adaptations of Literature. Theory and Current Examples

MA 3.3 Project Research (10 ECTS)

• 170715 UE Academic writing with creative methods
• 170716 UE Ways of interpreting. Contemporary musical theatre
• 170519 UE Peer Mentoring: First Practical Experience TFM 2025W
• 170520 UE Peer Mentoring: Advanced Experience TFM 2025W
• 070300 UE Workshop on Methodology - Invisible labour? The family as an economic site from the end of the nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century

MA 3.4 Artistic Research (10 ECTS)

• 170740 UE The Personal as the General: Studying as "Life Genre"
• 170741 UE ( MIXED ) Planetary Traces / Accessing Environmental Knowledge
• 143006 KU Insight into Contemporary Digital Africa

MA 3.5 Intersectional Perspectives (10 ECTS)

• 170742 UE Longitudinal documentary film as Counter/Documentary
• 170743 UE Color and texture in the intersectional field of tension in the media
• 070161 UE Methodological workshop - Bildquellen in der Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte

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