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107-078 Italian National Cinemas | |
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Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Dr Mark Nicholls |
Prerequisites | Usually 25 points of first-year cinema studies, see Prerequisites, or first-year European studies, see Prerequisites. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 2.5-hour screening, a 1-hour lecture, a 1-hour tutorial per week |
Subject Description | This subject is a study of the institutional and cultural aspects of national cinemas through a case study of Italian cinema and cinemas of the Italian diaspora in Australia since the second World War. The representation of regional, class and gender differences will be studied in relation to formal and aesthetic invention, postwar political and philosophical debate, issues of migration and the construction of Italian national identity. Students should complete the subject with a grasp of the concept of a national cinema in relation to contemporary art house and entertainment film production, exhibition and distribution. |
Assessment | Written work totalling 4000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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