Overview

This unit introduces students to the major concepts and key debates in screen studies and provide students with the critical tools necessary to analyse a screen text. Students will develop an understanding of the histories and structures of screen industries with a particular emphasis on cinema and television. This unit will also facilitate greater student awareness of the relationship between screen texts, genre and society

Requisites

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
26-February-2024
26-May-2024
Last self-enrolment date
10-March-2024
Census date
31-March-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024
Winter
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
17-June-2024
28-July-2024
Last self-enrolment date
17-June-2024
Census date
28-June-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-July-2024
Results released date
13-August-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Critically analyse screen texts
  • Relate specific film and television texts, as well as wider genres, to broader social contexts
  • Identify the relationship between screen theory and practice
  • Discuss screen texts informed by a developed knowledge of theory, history and style

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
Online
Learning activities
4.00 12 weeks 48
Unspecified Activities
Various
4.50 12 weeks 54
TOTAL150

Swinburne Online

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Live Online
Class
1.00 6 weeks 6
Specified Activities
Various
2.50 12 weeks 30
Unspecified Activities
Various
9.50 12 weeks 114
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
AnalysisIndividual 40% 1,2,3,4 
EssayIndividual 40% 1,2,3,4 
PosterGroup 20% 1,2,3,4 

Content

  • Form and Style
  • Medium Specificity
  • Defining Genre
  • Genre and Context
  • Animation
  • The Film Industry
  • The Television Industry
  • Screen Performers
  • Screen Authors
  • National Screen Cultures
  • Screen in the Digital Age
  • Realism and the Screen

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.