AUSTRALIAN CINEMA16.7 3rd year
Dr. Barbara Creed.
At least three cinema studies subjects at second or third year level.
Second semester
No more than four hours of lectures, tutorials and film screenings a week. As this is also offered at 4th year level, numbers permitting, students will be divided into separate third and fourth year seminars.
Students completing this subject should:
understand the origins and main characteristics of the silent period in Australian film history;
understand the nature of the 70s renaissance in Australian film - its national, industrial and aesthetic concerns;
appreciate the central images, themes and preoccupations of the contemporary Australian cinema;
A study of the Australian cinema from the silent period to the present. Topics covered will include: early film history; conditions of production; the 70s renaissance; the role of the Australian government in film production; Australian genres; the Australian avant-garde; the Women's Film Fund; Australian film in the 90s; Post colonial theory and film.
Written work which may comprise class papers, essays or take-home examination totalling 5,000 words
Dermody S and Jacks E The Screening of Australia Vols 1 and 2 Currency Press 1987
AUSTRALIAN CINEMA 16.7
Dr Barbara Creed.
111-105 & 111-108
Second semester.
No more than four hours of lectures, tutorials and film screenings each week.
Students completing this subject should:
understand the origins and main characteristics of the silent period in Australian film history;
understand the nature of the 70s renaissance in Australian film - its national, industrial and aesthetic concerns; and
appreciate the central images, themes and preoccupations of the contemporary Australian cinema.
A study of the Australian cinema from the silent period to the present. Topics covered will include: early film history; conditions of production; the 70s renaissance; the role of the Australian government in film production; Australian genres; the Australian avant-garde; the Women's Film Fund; Australian film in the 90s; Post colonial theory and film.
Written work which may comprise class papers, essays or take-home examination totalling 5,000 words.
Dermody S and Jacks E The Screening of Australia Vols 1 and 2 Currency Press 1987