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131-065 Film and History | |
Note | Formerly available as 131-281/381. Students who have completed 131-281/381 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Dr J Damousi |
Prerequisites | Usually 25 points of First Year History, see Prerequisites. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1-hour lecture, a 1-hour tutorial and a 2-hour film per week |
Subject Description | The aim of this subject is to consider the ways in which four historical tragedies of the 20th century - the First World War, Fascism and the Holocaust, the Cold War and the Vietnam War - have been represented in film as entertainment. Has film seized our historical imagination, or has it stimulated and liberated it? Students should complete the subject with an understanding of: the ways in which popular cinema represents, reconstructs and interprets perceived realities in and of the past; the tension between social phenomena and their personal representation; the interaction between what is constructed as the personal and the political, with a special emphasis on the construction of gender, sexuality, class and race; the context of 20th century cinema, and the contexts which inform the explicit or implicit content of the films studied. |
Assessment | Written work totalling 4000 words. |
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