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106-068 Imagining Hollywood | |
Note | Formerly available as 106-296/396. Students who have completed 106-296/396 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Brett Farmer |
Prerequisites | Usually 25 points of first year English, see Prerequisites |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1-hour lecture per week and nine 2-hour tutorials scheduled across the semester. Film screenings most weeks in separate screening sessions |
Subject Description | Hollywood has developed as the site of the world's most powerful and influential film industry, but it has also come to signify far more: commodified entertainment, public fantasy, popular consumerism, celebrity worship, cult obsession, camp nostalgia, etc. This subject is designed to introduce students to ways of thinking critically, historically and analytically about Hollywood cinema. It seeks to provide students with a detailed understanding of Hollywood cinema as a cultural industry, a formal style and a social mythology. Within this context, the subject addresses the constitution and reconstitution of Hollywood cinema within a range of cultural, social and historical frames. Topics covered include: Hollywood as mass entertainment; Hollywood as textual system and aesthetic style; Hollywood and exhibition practices; the cult of the Hollywood star; textual and spectatorial reworkings of Hollywood film. |
Assessment | Written work totalling 4000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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