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Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Students may not receive credit for both 111-247/347 Contemporary Hollywood Cinema and 111-247/347 Entertainment Cinema.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Ms Angela Ndalianis.
Prerequisite: 111-105.
Contact: No more than four hours of lectures, tutorials and film screenings a week.
Objectives:
Students completing this subject should:
- understand mainstream cinema in terms of the structure of the Hollywood film industry
- analyse the emergence of auteurism in post-Hollywood cinema;
- demonstrate an awareness of the historical and formal changes that developed in Hollywood cinema from the 1960s-1990s
- critically evaluate the various theoretical approaches applied to popular cinema.
Content:
This subject will explore various developments in the post-1960s Hollywood period. Topics will include: the 1960s and the modernist tendencies; allusionism and the new generation of American auteurs (including Scorsese, Coppola, de Palma, Spielberg); the blockbuster form, spectacle and action trends; the second wave of Hollywood auteurs (Lee, the Coens, Burton, Cameron); and the semi-independent mainstream film. Through close analysis of the films to be studied, the subject aims at also looking critically at film theoretical responses to the social and ideological implications of Hollywood cinema.
Assessment:
Written work which may comprise one class paper, essays or take-home examinations totalling not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 30)
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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