107-239 Rebel Screen: 1960s Projections

12.5 points of first year study in cinema studies, art history, cultural studies, history, media, Australian studies or creative arts, or permission from the subject coordinator.

Experimental and Avant-garde movements of the 1960s and beyond are the focus of this subject. The critical, theoretical, and innovative methodologies generated in the 1960s will be studied through a broad cultural range of underground, alternative, and experimental screen texts (including Australian, European, Asian, African, and American, and South American examples). The subject will explore the basis for current network and vector concepts of screen communication through the knowledge generating functions and virtual realms of experimental screen media. Students will encounter a range of cultural styles arising from 1960s countercultures and political movements, including information structures, black power, decolonisation movements, revisions of hierarchies of gender and sexuality, music and drug cultures on screen. On completion of the subject, students should have a knowledge of theories of structuralism, feminism, and post-structuralism, and their relationship to the viewer/participant of multiple forms of screen culture and technologies (including the mobile screen, computer screen, experimental and ephemeral screen situations and art installations, the televisual screen, the cinematic screen, concert screen and projections). This subject will provide a foundation for any further study in fields of postmodern and contemporary theories of visual culture.

• This subject provides critical skills in analysing visual and theoretical material at second and third year level. Methodologies of critical and theoretical analysis generated from 1960s counter-cultural social, political, cultural, and aesthetic implications of screen cultures will be considered.

Written work totalling 4000 words comprising a 1500 word team-based case study and presentation 25% (commencing at the beginning of the semester and due at the end of the semester) and a 2500 word research essay 75% (due at the end of semester).

A subject reader will be available