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 111-262 Australian Cinema

Note

Available as 111-362 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Associate Professor Barbara Creed

Semester

1

Contact

Three hours of lectures and seminars each week and separate film screenings

Subject Description

A study of contemporary Australian cinema with a brief introduction to the early period. Topics will include: early film history; the 70s Renaissance; myth and narrative; gender and sexuality; the road movie; feminist filmmaking; independent and avant-garde Australian filmmaking; postcolonial perspectives; Aboriginal filmmaking.

Assessment

Written work which may comprise class papers, essays or take-home examinations totalling about 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • Dermody S and Jacks E, The Screening of Australia Vols 1 and 2. Currency Press 1987.
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