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 106-296 Imagining Hollywood

Note

Available as 106-396 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Brett Farmer

Semester

2

Contact

One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week. Film screenings most weeks in separate screening sessions

Subject Description

This subject looks at the ways that 'Hollywood' has been figured, and figures itself, across a range of texts, cultural practices and social groups. It aims to provide students with a detailed understanding of the development, organisation and reception of Hollywood cinema. Topics to be covered include: Hollywood as mass entertainment; Hollywood and exhibition practices; the cult of the Hollywood star; Hollywood and gossip; Hollywood and fandom; textual reworkings of Hollywood film; and how ideas of Hollywood operate in particular subcultures.

Assessment

Written work of not more than 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts

Course reader available from the department.

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