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107-076 Contemporary Hollywood Cinema | |
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Note | Formerly available as 111-247/347. Students who have completed 111-247 or 111-347 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Dr Angela Ndalianis |
Prerequisites | Usually 12.5 points of first year cinema studies, see Prerequisites, or first year gender studies, see Prerequisites. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 2-hour screening, a 1-hour lecture, a 1.5 hour seminar per week |
Subject Description | This subject explores developments in the Hollywood film industry from the 1960s to the present. Students should grasp some of the key issues of this period, including the focus on modernist strategies; revisionist approaches to early Hollywood genres; the emergence of left/right cycle films; allusionism and the new generation of Hollywood film school 'auteurs' (Coppola, Spielberg, Scorsese); and the generation that followed (Burton, Tarantino, the Coens, Lee). Students will also be looking critically at film theoretical responses to the Hollywood cinema of this era. |
Assessment | A class paper and an essay, totalling 4000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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