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106-270/370 "Art/Pornography/Blasphemy/Propaganda" appears differently in several places - choose the one you want:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p58) : Next:106-275 | Prev:106-268
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: David Bennett.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- have a general understanding of how the category 'art' has been employed in the twentieth century to legitimate certain cultural practices and to defend them against censure and censorship;
- have a general understanding of the processes and mechanisms by which censorship - communal, political and legal - operates;
- have an understanding of the historically and culturally variable nature of taboos on forms of sexual, religious and political representation and expression;
- have a detailed understanding of certain celebrated twentieth-century cases of the policing and contesting of the borders between 'art' and its presumed others: pornography, blasphemy and propaganda.
Content:
This subject examines the history and cultural politics of censorship in the 'West' during the twentieth century in relation to literature, film, the visual arts and popular music, focusing on artefacts that have been the subjects of 'artistic' defences against censorship on grounds of obscenity, blasphemy or propaganda.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p58) : Next:106-275 | Prev:106-268
2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p47) : Next:106-290 | Prev:106-268
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: David Bennett.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- have a general understanding of how the category 'art' has been employed in the twentieth century to legitimate certain cultural practices and to defend them against censure and censorship;
- have a general understanding of the processes and mechanisms by which censorship - communal, political and legal - operates;
- have an understanding of the historically and culturally variable nature of taboos on forms of sexual, religious and political representation and expression;
- have a detailed understanding of certain celebrated twentieth-century cases of the policing and contesting of the borders between 'art' and its presumed others: pornography, blasphemy and propaganda.
Content:
This subject examines the history and cultural politics of censorship in the 'West' during the twentieth century in relation to literature, film, the visual arts and popular music, focusing on artefacts that have been the subjects of 'artistic' defences against censorship on grounds of obscenity, blasphemy or propaganda.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
* Note that PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p47) : Next:106-290 | Prev:106-268
3. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p103) : Next:106-275 | Prev:106-262
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: David Bennett.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- have a general understanding of how the category "art" has been employed in the twentieth century to legitimate certain cultural practices and to defend them against censure and censorship;
- have a general understanding of the processes and mechanisms by which censorship - communal, political and legal - operates;
- have an understanding of the historically and culturally variable nature of taboos on forms of sexual, religious and political representation and expression; and
- have a detailed understanding of certain celebrated twentieth-century cases of the policing and contesting of the borders between "art" and its presumed others: pornography, blasphemy and propaganda.
Content:
This subject examines the history and cultural politics of censorship in the "West" during the twentieth century in relation to literature, film, the visual arts and popular music, focusing on artefacts that have been the subjects of "artistic" defences against censorship on grounds of obscenity, blasphemy or propaganda.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
* Note that CONTACT, CONTENT, OBJECTIVES, POINTS, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
3. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p103) : Next:106-275 | Prev:106-262
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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