106-068 Imagining Hollywood

Formerly available as 106-296/396. Students who have completed 106-296 or 106-396 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Fifty points of first-year arts including at least 25 points from a specified list of subject areas, see Prerequisites.

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; and textual and spectatorial reworkings of Hollywood film.