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)

• 170001 VO ( OV STEOP ) STEOP: Lecture "Introduction to Theatre, Film and Media Studies"

Forms of Theatre and Media Staging (8 ECTS)

Advanced Courses (41 ECTS)

Scientific Writing (8 ECTS)

Techniques of Scientific Writing

• 170109 UE 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

• 170122 UE Exercise Course "Performance and Staging Analysis"

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" - Online dating. What do the media know about love?
• 170127 UE Exercise Course "Media Analysis" - Affect, the Mundane, Media
• 170129 UE Exercise Course Media Analysis - Affordances of Digital Media

Theory (18 ECTS)

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 on Trial. Film theory's procedures between courtroom drama and filmic evidence
• 170135 PS Introductory Seminar "Film Theory" - Introduction to Film Theory: Realism

Media Theory

• 170137 PS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Media theory for the next society - basics of media theory
• 170138 PS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Mediality and Theory
• 170139 PS Introductory Seminar "Media Theory" - Mediality and Theory

Specialisation (33 ECTS)

Body, Staging, Interaction (11 ECTS)

Concepts and Techniques of Acting

• 170211 PS Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting"
• 170212 PS Introductory Seminar "Concepts and Techniques of Acting" - Subjectification with, in and through media

Body Practices and Gender Presentations

• 170213 UE [ en ] Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - Climate fiction: exploring the future
• 170214 UE Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - Distorted Bodies, Distorted Identities - On the "Other" in Contemporary Dance/Performance
• 170215 UE Exercise Course "Body Practices and Gender Presentations" - towards a poor theatre - How much self-exploitation can art tolerate? Myths, misunderstandings and detours in experimental theater of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Narrative Orders (11 ECTS)

Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media

• 170220 PS Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - The Birth of the Anthropocene from the Availability of the World in the World Image (working title)
• 170221 PS Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - Postdigital Attention
• 170222 PS Introductory Seminar "Narrativity in Theatre, Film and Media" - Hot Predictions. On the entangled media history of computing and climate

Media Transitions

• 170223 UE Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - Gotta Catch ’Em All! Creatures and Critters in Art and Theory
• 170224 UE Exercise Course "Media Transitions" - Mediality of disorder

Space Productions (11 ECTS)

Theatre and Media Spaces

• 170230 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Infrastructures of Colonial Theatre Spaces: Construction, Practice, Reception
• 170231 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Mediations and Narrations of the Sea
• 170232 PS Introductory Seminar "Theatre and Media Spaces" - Aesthetics of the Digital

Staged Spaces

• 170233 UE Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - What is going on here? Space - Performance - Audiience
• 170234 UE Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - "Media of attraction"
• 170235 UE Exercise Course "Staged Spaces" - Between settledness and frontier - the Western film

History of Theatre, Film and Media (20 ECTS)

History of Theatre (3 ECTS)

• 170301 VO Lecture: The History of Theatre

History of Film (3 ECTS)

• 060001 VO What is jewish cinema? An introduction into jewish visual culture
• 170310 VO Lecture: The History of Film - VR as a history of moving pictures

History of Media (3 ECTS)

• 170311 VO Lecture on the History of Media - Climate Images
• 170320 VO Lecture: The History of Theatre, Film and Media - Queer-feminist film and media historiographies. Austria in an international context (part 1): The long 1990s

History of Theatre, Film and Media (9 ECTS)

• 170320 VO Lecture: The History of Theatre, Film and Media - Queer-feminist film and media historiographies. Austria in an international context (part 1): The long 1990s
• 170321 VO ( REMOTE ) Lecture on the History of Theatre, Film and Media

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

• 170322 KO Discussion Course on the History of Theatre, Film and Media - Queer-feminist film and media historiographies. Austria in an international context (part 1): The long 1990s
• 170323 KO Discussion Course on the History of Film - VR as a history of moving pictures

Compulsory Supplementary Module (30 ECTS)

Theory and Aesthetics (10 ECTS)

• 010119 SE "Now is the Time of Monsters". (Theories of) Democracy in Crisis
• 170497 UE Theater and Fascism in the Americas
• 170499 UE Sustainability. On the media history of a contemporary norm
• 170500 UE From Mizoguchi to Kore-eda - the japanese melodram
• 170503 UE Film and media theory of the Frankfurt School
• 170504 UE ( MIXED ) Introduction to the theory and practice of the "Aesthetics of Access"

History (10 ECTS)

• 170508 UE In Through the Caves of Impression. An Introduction to Arabic Theater
• 170509 UE Film and Melodrama
• 170512 UE Storying and Worlding
• 170513 UE Image Theory

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 Digital Transformation of Museums
• 170528 UE FILM EDUCATION x FILM MUSEUM. ON FILM CURATORSHIP
• 170529 UE Stop-Motion Animation
• 170535 UE Diagonale 2025 - essayistic writing and film criticism

Gender (10 ECTS)

• 170539 UE "Feminism or Death": ecofeminism - posthuman feminism - queer ecology
• 170540 UE (Non-)consensual practices: Intimacy Coordination in rehearsal processes

Global Perspectives (10 ECTS)

• 170542 UE [ en ] Mourning Practices in Contemporary Performance Art
• 170543 UE Ecologies of Precariousness/Precarity

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
• 170601 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Festwochen-Campus
• 170602 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Reset & Refresh: Digital Media Theory of/for Renewal
• 170603 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Staging Affects

MA 1.2 Processes of Theatricality and Mediality (7 ECTS)

• 170610 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Breathing, Atmosphere, Air
• 170611 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - African American Filmhistory/-ies
• 170613 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Theories of Imagination

MA 1.3 Discourses and Methods (7 ECTS)

• 170620 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Digital Fascism
• 170621 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Cinema in the Anthropocene
• 170622 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Body/Knowledge
• 170623 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Climate media: Between crisis, protest and hope

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 Past was Female: Women in Silent Cinema - Lecture
• 170701 VO Benjamin, Kluge, Godard & Co - Lecture with interactive elements

MA 3.2 Aesthetics and Poetics (10 ECTS)

• 170708 UE "Two people in a room, talking." Talk in film

MA 3.3 Project Research (10 ECTS)

• 170713 UE No such thing as Nature. On necessary positions in choreography and performance
• 170714 UE Conversations about Musical Theatre
• 170715 UE Queer historiography with New Cinema History

MA 3.4 Artistic Research (10 ECTS)

• 170519 UE Peer Mentoring: First Practical Experience TFM 2024W
• 170520 UE Peer Mentoring: Advanced Experience TFM 2024W
• 170739 UE The earth as a image archive / Guide to climate reading
• 170740 UE Making festivals: Insights into festival programming

MA 3.5 Intersectional Perspectives (10 ECTS)

• 170742 UE Intersectionality from a media studies perspective

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

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 Media Aesthetics: Theory - History - Practice - Skeleton and Skull Exhibition of Sepulchral Culture
• 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 - Creative Writing: Theory - History - Practice
• 170999 UE Media Aesthetics: Theory - History - Practice - Creative Writing - Theory - History - Practice