Course description
Specialisation Requirements:
* 50 points elective subjects with no more than 12.5 points at first-year level
First year subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
106-101 Culture, Media and Everyday Life
This subject offers an introduction to contemporary cultural studies by focusing on the media and their effects in everyday life. It analyses film, television, new media, advertising and photography; considers their approaches across interacting regi... Semester 2 12.50
107-132 Introduction to Cinema Studies
This subject provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the study of film language and theory. It is organised around these two separate but related areas. The film language component covers two interrelated topics that are essential for ... Semester 1 12.50
Second/third year subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
107-078 Italian National Cinemas
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
107-083 Film Noir: Style and History
This subject is a close study of film noir texts from Pandora's Box to Lost Highway with emphasis on an evolving noir style. Topics studied will include the silent period; noir and German expressionism; noir horror; classic Hollywood noir of the... Semester 2 12.50
107-087 Contemporary Australian Cinema
Global and national forces have shaped world cinema from its inception in the late nineteenth century. How, then, do we define a national cinema? This subject will examine the various factors that help shape and define the nature of the Australian fi... Semester 1 12.50
107-240 World Screen: Aesthetics and Politics
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
107-246 Surrealism and the Cinema
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
107-258 Game Studies, Entertainment & Cityscape
This subject will analyse the dramatic impact that computer games have had in transforming contemporary entertainment media and the urban environment in general. The subject will deal with the historical development of computer gaming from the earlie... Semester 2 12.50
107-270 The 1950s: Film, Perfection & Propaganda
This subject will focus on the decade of the 1950s as a radical turning point in cinematic history. Considering the integral relationship that exists between the film product and society, attention will turn to key historical, economic and technologi... Semester 1 12.50
107-307 Love Stories and the Cinema
This subject is a study of many manifestations of the love story represented in Hollywood, Italian, French, British and Australian cinema. Through detailed close-analysis of a range of films, the subject explores topics such as romantic love, mad lov... Semester 2 12.50
106-009 Media Histories
The subject will explore the intimate connections between media technologies and changing understandings of culture over the last 150 years. Students will be introduced to the histories of major 'old'‚ media technologies, and ex... Semester 1 12.50
106-014 Hong Kong Cinema
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-022 City Cultures
This subject provides an introduction to a variety of ways in which city cultures have defined and articulated postmodern culture. Students will be introduced to contemporary urban narratives of places and spaces through a focus on city cultures, fro... Semester 2 12.50
106-057 From Rock to Rave: Cultural Formations
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-226 Lifestyle and Consumer Culture
What is lifestyle? When and how did the concept develop, and what functions does it serve in consumer culture today? How does it relate to parallel concepts like taste, style and identity? This subject frames lifestyle as the site where consumer cult... Semester 1 12.50
106-368 Contemporary Cultural Theory
This subject introduces students to some of the major theoretical traditions in cultural studies ranging from studies of mass culture to feminist, ethnographic and postcolonial cultural studies. These theoretical traditions will be our resource to be... Semester 2 12.50
106-201 Hollywood and Entertainment
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; allusionism and the new... Semester 2 12.50
106-245 Global Screen Cultures
This subject introduces students to film and other screen-based media (that may include television, the internet, computer games and mobile media) as objects and commodities of global circulation. It will examine the history of theoretical frameworks... Semester 1 12.50
106-246 Television and Popular Culture
An introduction to the study of popular culture with focus on examples of (post) industrialised modernity (film, popular music, television, comics, advertising, computer games, theme parks and the internet) and the critical and ... Semester 2 12.50
106-243 Sex and the Screen
How do representations of sex in screen media such as film, television and the Internet impact on our experience of our own gendered and sexual identities? How are ideas about love, romance, sex and gender, and social categories like masculinity and ... Semester 1 12.50
