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106-297/397 "Modernity, Spectacle and the Popular Media" appears differently in several places - choose the one you want:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p56) : Next:106-300 | Prev:106-295
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: Jodi Brooks.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture (plus occasional 1/2-hour screenings with lecture) and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- have an understanding of the relationships between culture, technology and aesthetic form using specific case studies (early forms of film entertainment, early television);
- have an understanding of the history of the changing forms and sites of popular media spectacles;
- be familiar with the history of popular media forms and technologies as spectacle (using these case studies) in relation to other cultural forms;
- be familiar with contemporary and past debates over the value and gendering of popular media forms;
- be introduced to cultural studies theories of spectatorship and the idea of 'distraction'.
Content:
This subject introduces students to a cultural studies approach to the popular media. The subject will look at both the history of popular media forms (placing these cultural forms in the context of modernity - the city crowd, spectacle and ideas of distraction), and how the popular media has been theorised and valued in the twentieth century.
Assessment:
Written work of up to 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
Recommended texts:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p56) : Next:106-300 | Prev:106-295
2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p47) : Next:131-208 | Prev:106-295
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: Jodi Brooks.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture (plus occasional 1/2-hour screenings with lecture) and one 2-hour tutorial.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- have an understanding of the relationships between culture, technology and aesthetic form using specific case studies (early forms of film entertainment, early television);
- have an understanding of the history of the changing forms and sites of popular media spectacles;
- be familiar with the history of popular media forms and technologies as spectacle (using these case studies) in relation to other cultural forms;
- be familiar with contemporary and past debates over the value and gendering of popular media forms;
- be introduced to cultural studies theories of spectatorship and the idea of 'distraction'.
Content:
This subject introduces students to a cultural studies approach to the popular media. The subject will look at both the history of popular media forms (placing these cultural forms in the context of modernity - the city crowd, spectacle and ideas of distraction), and how the popular media has been theorised and valued in the 20th-century.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
Recommended texts:
* Note that ASSESSMENT, CONTACT, CONTENT, RECOMMENDEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p47) : Next:131-208 | Prev:106-295
3. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p101) : Next:106-300 | Prev:106-295
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Jodi Brooks.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture (plus occasional 1/2-hour screenings with lecture) and one 2-hour tutorial each week
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- have an understanding of the relationships between culture, technology and aesthetic form using specific case studies (early forms of film entertainment, early television);
- have an understanding of the history of the changing forms and sites of popular media spectacles;
- be familiar with the history of popular media forms and technologies as spectacle (using these case studies) in relation to other cultural forms;
- be familiar with contemporary and past debates over the value and gendering of popular media forms; and
- be introduced to cultural studies theories of spectatorship and the idea of "distraction".
Content:
This subject introduces students to a cultural studies approach to the popular media. The subject will look at both the history of popular media forms (placing these cultural forms in the context of modernity - the city crowd, spectacle and ideas of distraction), and how the popular media has been theorised and valued in the twentieth century.
Assessment:
Written work of up to 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
* Note that CONTACT, OBJECTIVES, POINTS, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
3. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p101) : Next:106-300 | Prev:106-295
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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