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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. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
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 | 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. By the end of semester students should be familiar with the discourses which circulate around ideas of 'Hollywood'; 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 | Class participation, and written work totalling 4000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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