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Cinema and Climate (P5093)

15 credits, Level 5

Spring teaching

On this module, you'll explore cinema through an eco-critical lens, examining its role as both a representational and material art form with real-world impacts. You'll study three media ecologies that highlight cinema's relationship with climate:

• the social: mainstream representations of climate in cinema and their influence on beliefs and behaviours regarding the climate crisis
• the perceptual: art cinema and experimental films that aim to reshape viewers' perceptions, fostering greater attunement to life forms and the environment
• the material: the environmental footprint of film production and consumption.

You'll engage with examples like slow cinema, eco-feminist perspectives and indigenous films to understand cinema's potential to influence perceptions and actions towards the climate crisis.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 48 hours of contact time and about 102 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2024/25. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.