Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 32)
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111-360 "Film Theory and Research" appears differently in several places - choose the one you want:
1. Cinema Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p32) : Next:111-361 | Prev:111-259
Credit points: 16.7 3rd year
Coordinator: Dr Barbara Creed.
Prerequisite: This subject is open to all third year students and is a prerequisite for entry into Fourth Year Honours.
Contact: No more than four hours of lectures, tutorials, and screenings per week
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should:
- understand the major developments in film theory;
- appreciate the different theoretical positions and schools of thinking which have influenced the history of film theory;
- be able to select an area of film study suitable for a research project and prepare a relevant filmography and bibliography.
Content:
A study of the major theoretical developments in film including the following: expressionism, realism, formalism, auteur criticism, genre theory, semiotics, post-structuralism and feminist theory. Theorists studied will include: Arnheim, Kracauer, Pudovkin, Eisenstein, Bazin, Godard, Barthes, Metz, Mulvey. A study of areas suitable for a film research project will include: avant-garde filmmaking, auteurism, genre, film history, film and postmodernism, spectatorship, the body, film and myth, feminist film theory, queer theory.
Assessment:
An essay on film theory of 2,000 words (40%), a rersearch essay with annotated filmography and bibliography of 3,000 words (50%) and seminar presentation (10%).
Prescribed texts:
1. Cinema Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p32) : Next:111-361 | Prev:111-259
2. Cinema Studies, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p85) : Next:111-362 | Prev:111-258
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Dr Barbara Creed.
Prerequisite: This subject is open to all third year students and is a prerequisite for entry into Fourth Year Honours
Contact: No more than four hours of lectures, tutorials, and screenings each week
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should:
- understand the major developments in film theory;
- appreciate the different theoretical positions and schools of thinking which have influenced the history of film theory; and
- be able to select an area of film study suitable for a research project and prepare a relevant filmography and bibliography.
Content:
A study of the major theoretical developments in film including the following: expressionism, realism, formalism, auteur criticism, genre theory, semiotics, post-structuralism and feminist theory. Theorists studied will include: Arnheim, Kracauer, Pudovkin, Eisenstein, Bazin, Godard, Barthes, Metz, Mulvey. A study of areas suitable for a film research project will include: avant-garde filmmaking, auteurism, genre, film history, film and postmodernism, spectatorship, the body, film and myth, feminist film theory, queer theory.
Assessment:
An essay on film theory of 2,000 words (40 per cent); a research essay with annotated filmography and bibliography of 3,000 words (50 per cent); a seminar presentation (10 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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2. Cinema Studies, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p85) : Next:111-362 | Prev:111-258
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