Breaking the Screen
Overview
This unit promotes an interrogation into the limits of screen culture and screen production. It promotes analysis into the ways that film and television has attempted to extend and innovate within screen media. The program seeks to confront the ways that film and television makers have challenged the status quo in terms of aesthetics, narrative and form, as well as in challenging traditional notions of taste, quality and value. This unit also aims to investigate the role of the screen as a mode for activism, propaganda and social and political change.
Requisites
27-October-2024
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Evaluate and critique concepts of value and quality in screen media
- Respond to and engage with key debates in screen studies and substantiate a position
- Analyse relationships between screen media and social and political cultures
- Assess modes of spectatorship in relation to varied screen systems
- Apply conceptual frameworks to an analysis of screen innovations
- Formulate research hypotheses and conduct independent research
- Develop clear arguments through research and the analysis of selected texts and use of critical screenings
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
---|---|---|---|
On-campus Class | 3.00 | 12 weeks | 36 |
On-campus Class | 1.00 | 12 weeks | 12 |
Specified Activities Various | 3.50 | 12 weeks | 42 |
Unspecified Activities Various | 5.00 | 12 weeks | 60 |
TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
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Critical Analysis/Provocation | Individual | 40% | 1,4,5 |
Presentation | Individual | 10% | 1,2,3 |
Research Essay | Individual | 50% | 2,3,5,6,7 |
Content
- Paracinema and questions of value, quality and taste in screen media
- Technology, community, engulfment, 3D and 4D screen experiences
- Extensions of the screen through sound, image and narrative
- Screen cultures and questions of morality
- Sex and violence on screen in the cinema and in our homes
- Challenges to representation in relation to cultural values
- Alternative histories in film and television
- Race, gender, identity and screen innovation
- Activism, post-coloniality, agitprop and the impact of political cinema
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.