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Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Dr J Damousi, Associate Professor C Sowerwine.
Prerequisite: 25 points in first-year history for 2nd year students, 50 points in second-year history for 3rd year students.
Contact: One 2-hour film a 1-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to: understand the ways in which popular cinema represents perceived realities in and of the past; the tension between social phenomena and their personal representation, the interaction between the personal and the political in cinema, with a special emphasis on the construction of gender, class and race, the diverse genres which have characterised cinematic representation of social and cultural phenomena over the twentieth century, the context of twentieth-century cinema and the contexts which form the explicit or implicit subjects of the films viewed.
Content:
Case studies in cinematic representation: the Depression, Fascism/the Holocaust/World War II, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War in cinema. Students will study up to twelve popular films from 1931 to 1993 from American, Australian, French and Italian cinema.
Assessment:
One 3,000 word research essay (50%), one 2,000 word reflective essay (40%), and class participation (10%).
Prescribed texts:
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Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Dr J Damousi, Associate Professor C Sowerwine.
Contact: One 2-hour film, a 1-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial each week.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to: understand the ways in which popular cinema represents perceived realities in and of the past; the tension between social phenomena and their personal representation, the interaction between the personal and the political in cinema, with a special emphasis on the construction of gender, class and race, the diverse genres which have characterised cinematic representation of social and cultural phenomena over the twentieth century, the context of twentieth-century cinema and the contexts which form the explicit or implicit subjects of the films viewed.
Content:
Case studies in cinematic representation: the Depression, Fascism/the Holocaust/World War II, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War in cinema. Students will study up to twelve popular films from 1931 to 1993 from American, Australian, French and Italian cinema.
Assessment:
One 3000 word research essay (50 per cent); one 2000 word reflective essay (40 per cent); class participation (10 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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