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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 | Assoc Prof 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 | Class participation and written work totalling 4000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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