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 106-022 City Cultures: Urban Stories

Note

Formerly available as 106-221/321. Students who have completed 106-221/321 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

To be advised

Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of first year English, see Prerequisites.

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

A 1-hour lecture per week and nine 2-hour tutorials scheduled across the semester

Subject Description

This subject provides an introduction to a variety of ways in which city cultures have defined and articulated postmodern culture. Students will be introduced to contemporary urban narratives of places and spaces through a focus on city cultures, including those of New York and LA. Students will explore and analyse how the city has been represented in architecture, fiction and film, in order to consider how cities have become central to our theoretical understanding of contemporary cultures.

Assessment

Class participation, and written work totalling 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • M Davis, City of Quartz. Verso.
  • P Auster, The New York Trilogy. Faber and Faber.
  • M Rosler, If You Lived Here. Bay Books.
  • Films, China Town, Taxi Driver, Bladerunner, Earthquake.
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