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

Forms of Theatre and Media Staging (8 ECTS)

• EXAM 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"
• 170111 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

Analysis (15 ECTS)

Performance and Staging Analysis

• 170120 UE Exercise Course "Performance and Staging Analysis"
• 170121 UE Exercise Course "Performance and Staging Analysis"
• 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" - The spectacle of everyday life
• 170127 UE Exercise Course "Media Analysis" - Introduction to cultural studies
• 170128 UE Exercise Course "Media Analysis" - Media and Authenticity in Late Modernity

Theory (18 ECTS)

Theatre Theory

• 170130 PS Introductory Seminar Theatre Theory
• 170131 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre Theory" with Writing Workshop
• 170132 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre Theory" with Writing Workshop

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" - What is cinema?
• 170135 PS Introductory Seminar "Film Theory" with Writing Workshop - Film theories 2016 - 1913

Media Theory

• 170137 PS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Moodeling Around with Media: An introduction to media theory based on the creation of e-learning modules
• 170138 PS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" with Writing Workshop - Introduction to media theory
• 170139 PS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Media theory of the Frankfurt School

Specialisation (33 ECTS)

Body, Staging, Interaction (11 ECTS)

Concepts and Techniques of Acting

• 170210 PS Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting"
• 170211 PS Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - Theories on Acting
• 170212 PS Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - Silent Stars: Star Images in American Silent Cinema

Body Practices and Gender Presentations

• 170213 UE Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - How do you feel? - Media and affect politics
• 170214 UE [ en ] Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - The Female Cyborg in Film and TV
• 170215 UE Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - Theatre Directing and Gender

Narrative Orders (11 ECTS)

Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media

• 170220 PS Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - On beginning(s) in theatre & performance
• 170221 PS Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - Film Genre , Genre Awareness, Film Perception
• 170222 PS Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - GTA - Introduction to Game Studies

Media Transitions

• 170223 UE Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - The godfather of story
• 170224 UE Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - The proto-digital avantgarde
• 170225 UE Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - Art manifestos - from the art text to art and life practice

Space Productions (11 ECTS)

Theatre and Media Spaces

• 170230 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Fire and water: elemental natural forces in scenography
• 170231 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Spaces and Spatiality in Music Videos
• 170232 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Infrastructural Media

Staged Spaces

• 170233 UE Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - History of Viennese cinemas
• 170234 UE Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - Text and Space: Stage design between the poles of tradition and digital avant-garde
• 170235 UE Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - Shared Mobility. Moving with Media.

History of Theatre, Film and Media (20 ECTS)

Compulsory Module I (11 ECTS)

History of Theatre

• 170301 VO Lecture: The History of Theatre - 'Theatro est opus.' Theatrality of the renaissance

History of Film

• 060026 VO From Caligari to Hitler - Propaganda and Entertainment
• 170310 VO Lecture: The History of Film - Film exile and exile film, 1933-1945

History of Media

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

Discussion Course on the History of Theatre, Film and Media

• 170330 KO Discussion Course on the Lecture "History of Media" - Film exile and exile film 1933-1945
• 170340 KO Discussion Course on the Lecture "History of Media"

Compulsory Module II (9 ECTS)

History of Theatre, Film and Media

• 170400 VO Montage and relationality
• 170401 VO Methods of Theatre, Film and Media Studies
• 143137 VO Decolonization: Early African Cinema

Group of Elective Supplementary Modules (30 ECTS)

Theory and Aesthetics (10 ECTS)

• 170498 UE Theories on the milieu
• 170499 UE Sound as Medium
• 170500 UE Contemporary theater discourses
• 170501 UE [ en ] Choreographies of the non-human
• 170502 UE My Gaze - Foreign Gazes - The Filmic Positioning and Agency of the Subject.
• 170503 UE Bodies that matter? - Notes on Musicals

History (10 ECTS)

• 170505 UE Bow and arrow. A media archeology of the Nomadic
• 170506 UE Kurz-Bernardon
• 170507 UE Media history of Queer Studies
• 170508 UE Revolt They Say - Queer_Feminist Aesthetics of Resistance
• 170509 UE Theatre practices and social resilience

Fields of Practice and Communication (10 ECTS)

• 170510 UE Viennale 2020 - Essay film and film criticism
• 170511 UE Dramatic theory in radio art
• 170512 UE The never-ending crisis of dramatic text in contemporary theatre - Zeitgenössische Dramatik in der Dauerkrise
• 170513 UE Analog photography
• 170514 UE The Reel Thing - A (technical) history of film and film archiving
• 170515 UE Cultural Management in Practice and Theory
• 170520 UE Mentoring-Workshop

Gender (10 ECTS)

• 170524 UE Post-colonial gender and media studies
• 170530 UE Introduction to Queer TV Studies
• 170531 UE On Pointe. - Dance and Gender Studies: An Introduction

Global Perspectives (10 ECTS)

• 170540 UE [ en ] Media and the Nation: A Postcolonial Perspective
• 170541 UE Ethnicity in World 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" - Variations of Assembly
• 170601 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Theatre/The Grotesque
• 170602 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - The Power of Memes - Cultural Studies and Digital Culture
• 170603 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - "Two people in a room, talking." Talk in Film

MA 1.2 Processes of Theatricality and Mediality (7 ECTS)

• 170610 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - The algorithms of society: an introduction into software studies
• 170611 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Aesthetics of the In-Between: The Films of Sofia Coppola
• 170612 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Sehnsuchtsorte, Zwischenräume: Künstlerkolonien und ihre Utopien zwischen Kunstproduktion und Heilmethoden
• 170614 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Elements of a picture theory in the case of Walter Benjamin and Georges Didi-Huberman

MA 1.3 Discourses and Methods (7 ECTS)

• 170620 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - The Comic and Dictatorship
• 170621 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - What's (in) a year? Annohistories
• 170622 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Comparative Approaches to the History of Media
• 170623 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Transformations/Shapeshifting
• 170624 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Asylum in the documentary film

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 The Fascination of Evil - Lecture
• 170701 VO The Fascination of Evil - Lecture with interactive elements

MA 3.2 Aesthetics and Poetics (10 ECTS)

• 170710 UE Biopower and Biopolitics
• 170712 UE Modes of narration. Exploring current stagings of Music Theatre.
• 170713 UE Touching History
• 170714 UE Media aesthetics of the tactile

MA 3.3 Project Research (10 ECTS)

• 170720 UE Corona. Crisis, care and capitalism
• 170721 UE Forgotten comedies from Vienna

MA 3.4 Artistic Research (10 ECTS)

• 170730 UE QUEER DIDACTICX
• 170731 UE OUT OF DIALOGUE COMES A FOCUS TO BE SHARED_FILMPORTRAITS | Artistic Research x Filmmuseum
• 170732 UE Media of History - Dialectical images and artistic research

MA 3.5 Intersectional Perspectives (10 ECTS)

• 170740 UE Caribbean cinemas from postcolonial perspectives
• 170741 UE "From Left to Right" - Performance arts and stagings of identity politics
• 170742 UE Science fiction in light of Science and Technology Studies

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
• 170994 VO Development of Media and Forms of Communication

Exercises (9 ECTS)

• 170995 UE Media aesthetics in everyday use
• 170996 UE Media Aesthetics in Everyday Use
• 170997 UE Media Aesthetics in Everyday Use
• 170998 UE Media Aesthetics in Everyday Use
• 170999 UE Media Aesthetics in Everyday Life