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111-105 Introduction To Cinema A: Classical Hollywood and Art Cinema

Credit points: 12.5 1st year

Coordinator: Ms Angela Ndalianis.

Contact: One lecture, one tutorial and one screening a week.

Timetable: First semester

Objectives:

Students completing this subject should:

• be able to analyse Hollywood & European art cinema in terms of modes of production and modes of narration;
• recognise the major stylistic techniques of narrative cinema;
• understand the history of film criticism, including genre, auteur, ideological and feminist modes of critique.

Content:

A study of popular cinema which introduces students to the concepts of narrative form and cinematic style in Hollywood & Art cinema. Includes an introduction to genre criticism, auteurism, ideological critique and feminist film theory.

Assessment:

Written work which may comprise of one class paper, visual test and an essay totalling not more than 4,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Bordwell D Thompson K Film Art: An Introduction (3rd ed) McGraw-Hill New York 1990

1. Cinema Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p30) : Next:111-106

2. Cinema Studies, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p85) : Next:111-108

111-105 Introduction To Cinema A: Classical Hollywood and Art Cinema

Credit points: 12.5

Coordinator: Ms Angela Ndalianis.

Contact: One lecture, one tutorial and one screening each week.

Timetable: First semester.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• analyse Hollywood & European art cinema in terms of modes of production and modes of narration;
• recognise the major stylistic techniques of narrative cinema; and
• understand the history of film criticism, including genre, auteur, ideological and feminist modes of critique.

Content:

A study of popular cinema which introduces students to the concepts of narrative form and cinematic style in Hollywood & Art cinema. Includes an introduction to genre criticism, auteurism, ideological critique and feminist film theory.

Assessment:

Written work which may comprise one class paper, visual test and an essay totalling not more than 4,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Bordwell D Thompson K Film Art: An Introduction (3rd ed) McGraw-Hill New York 1990

* Note that ASSESSMENT, CONTACT, OBJECTIVES, POINTS, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.

2. Cinema Studies, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p85) : Next:111-108

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