ObjectivesStudents who complete the postgraduate diploma should:
* acquire the ability to prepare an original piece of research;
* gain an in-depth knowledge of theories and methodologies about cinema;
* develop an ability to analyse the critical reception of films.
Academic titlePostgraduate Diploma in Arts (Cinema Studies)
Total 100 points - subjects are 12.5 points each, unless indicated otherwise.
Thesis subject
Subject Semester Credit Points
107-523 Cinema Studies Thesis
A topic selected in consultation with the coordinator. Semester 1, Semester 2 37.50
Elective subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
106-409 Celebrity Cultures
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-448 Theorising the Spectator
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
107-405 Spectacles: Museums to Theme Parks
This subject will not be available in 2009 25
107-409 Indigenous Photography, New Media, Film
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
107-421 Contemporary Film Theory
This subject will examine the development of contemporary film theory of the post-1968 period. Students will be expected to critically evaluate the significance and applicability of some of the following theoretical approaches: formalism and structur... Semester 1 12.50
107-432 Melodrama, Class and the Cinema
This subject involves a study of the role the melodrama has played in the representation of class and ideological conflict in the cinema. Students are asked to examine melodramas from periods such as the silent period, the 1930s, the 1950s and contem... Semester 2 12.50
107-429 Ethnographic and Documentary Cinema
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
107-440 Hitchcock, Film and Art
Alfred Hitchcock is one of the greatest directors of the 20th century. Recently a number of international exhibitions have documented the receptiveness of Hitchcock's films to the literary and visual arts of his time - from Pre-Raphaelite and Sy... Semester 1 12.50
107-458 Screen Affect: Culture, Bodies, Emotion
This subject will explore visual representations of culture: aesthetic, affective, and political to explore the various levels of affect. Affect is a core concept in interpretive visual methodologies, involving the analysis of bodies within contextua... Semester 2 12.50
107-459 Screen Media and Mediated Experiences
We live in a world mediated by screen technologies, and our times are marked by radical transitions and advances in media that have altered out perception and experience of reality. This subject analyses the nature of current screen media, including ... Semester 2 12.50
107-463 Dream Screen: Film and Psychoanalysis
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
107-470 The Carnivalesque and the Cinema
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
102-511 Imaging Australian Spaces
This subject allows students to examine the ways in which Australian space has been represented in a variety of cultural forms. The subject explores how these spaces - conceived in a visual, literary and physical sense - have developed, and how these... Semester 2 12.50
760-425 Film and Philosophy
This subject looks at how a number of influential philosophical concepts have permeated (and been exemplified) in recent cinema. The subject begins by examining the ideas of Plato, and through an examination of mimesis and memory explores how his phi... Semester 1 12.50