Global Screen Studies: Beyond Hollywood
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 48 hours face to face + blended+swinburne online
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
2024 teaching periods
Hawthorn Higher Ed. Semester 2 |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Swinburne Online Teaching Period 2 |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
Aims and objectives
1. Demonstrate knowledge, conceptual understanding and expertise in the field of cinema and screen studies through assessment that includes film festival curation and essay-writing
2. Formulate arguments that draw on and critique the differences between relevant theories and evidence as they pertain to the field of cinema and screen studies from a global perspective
3. Exercise initiative and judgment in planning, problem solving and decision making in scholarship, alone and in collaboration with others
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
On-campus Class (Seminar) | 3 | 12 | 36 |
On-campus Class (tutorial) | 1 | 12 | 12 |
Specified Activities Various | 2 | 12 | 24 |
Unspecified Activities Various | 6.5 | 12 | 78 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Swinburne Online
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 12.5 | 12 | 150 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Assessment
Types | Individual/Group Role | Weighting | Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) |
Research Essay | Individual | 45% | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
Applied Project | Group | 30% | 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 |
Applied Project | Individual | 25% | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
Content
- globalisation of screen industries from Hollywood to Bollywood and Nollywood
- strategies for curating film festival programs
- the impact of streaming and other digital innovations that shape the global distribution of screen content
- examination of the diverse histories, dynamics and politics of film and television around the world, reflecting on postcolonial and Indigenous identities
- cultural contexts of feature films, documentaries, TV shows and experimental works
- conditions of production and reception in culturally and linguistically diverse environments
- transnational dimensions of film and television, and Global South-Global North dynamics of distribution
- screen research methodologies
Study resources
- Reading materials.