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 107-085 Australian Cinema

Note

Formerly available as 111-262/362. Students who have completed 111-262/362 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Dr Jeanette Hoom

Prerequisites

Usually 12.5 points of first year Cinema Studies see Prerequisites

Semester

Not Offered (view timetable)

Contact

2.5-hours of lectures and seminars per week with 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 classpapers, essays or take-home exams totalling 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts

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


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