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Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: Jodi Brooks.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week. Film screenings most weeks in separate screening sessions.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- understand the various ways that Hollywood has been, and is, represented in various media;
- be familiar with the discourses which circulate around ideas of 'Hollywood' and will have developed critical skills in analysing these discourses (in particular, ideas of gossip, the 'fan', and the relations between Hollywood and commodity culture);
- understand the similarities and differences between Hollywood's self-representations in early, classical, and contemporary cinema, particularly in relation to ideas of the audience.
Content:
This subject looks at the ways that 'Hollywood' has been figured, and figures itself, across a range of texts and cultural practices. Topics to be covered include: Hollywood and gossip (particularly in relation to the chat show and the fan magazine); the cult of the star; the figure of the 'fan' in popular culture; Hollywood as mass entertainment; Hollywood exhibition practices (from the 'Picture Palace' to the cinema complex to 'home entertainment'); and how ideas of Hollywood operate in particular subcultures (eg how a camp aesthetic draws on ideas of Hollywood).
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
Recommended texts:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p58) : Next:106-399 | Prev:106-293
2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p48) : Next:111-251 | Prev:106-293
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: Jodi Brooks.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week. Film screenings most weeks in separate screening sessions.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- understand the various ways that Hollywood has been, and is, represented in various media;
- be familiar with the discourses which circulate around ideas of 'Hollywood' and will have developed critical skills in analysing these discourses (in particular, ideas of gossip, the 'fan', and the relations between Hollywood and commodity culture);
- understand the similarities and differences between Hollywood's self-representations in early, classical, and contemporary cinema, particularly in relation to ideas of the audience.
Content:
This subject looks at the ways that 'Hollywood' has been figured, and figures itself, across a range of texts and cultural practices. Topics to be covered include: Hollywood and gossip (particularly in relation to the chat show and the fan magazine); the cult of the star; the figure of the 'fan' in popular culture; Hollywood as mass entertainment; Hollywood exhibition practices (from the 'Picture Palace' to the cinema complex to 'home entertainment'); and how ideas of Hollywood operate in particular subcultures (eg how a camp aesthetic draws on ideas of Hollywood).
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
Recommended texts:
* Note that RECOMMENDEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p48) : Next:111-251 | Prev:106-293
3. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p104) : Next:106-399 | Prev:106-293
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Jodi Brooks.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week. Film screenings most weeks in separate screening sessions
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- understand the various ways that Hollywood has been, and is, represented in various media;
- be familiar with the discourses which circulate around ideas of "Hollywood" and will have developed critical skills in analysing these discourses (in particular ideas of gossip, the "fan", and the relations between Hollywood and commodity culture); and
- understandthe similarities and differences between Hollywood's self-representations in early, classical, and contemporary cinema, particularly in relation to ideas of the audience.
Content:
This subject looks at the ways that "Hollywood" has been figured, and figures itself, across a range of texts and cultural practices. Topics to be covered include: Hollywood and gossip (particularly in relation to the chat show and the fan magazine); the cult of the star; the figure of the "fan" in popular culture; Hollywood as mass entertainment; Hollywood exhibition practices (from the "Picture Palace" to the cinema complex to "home entertainment"); and how ideas of Hollywood operate in particular subcultures (eg how a camp aesthetic draws on ideas of Hollywood).
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
* Note that CONTACT, CONTENT, OBJECTIVES, POINTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
3. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p104) : Next:106-399 | Prev:106-293
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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