Visual culture is a multidisciplinary field which incorporates film, television, visual arts, advertising, the built environment, and new digital and electronic forms of representation. Visual culture is associated with a critical shift in art history/visual arts in the late 1960s and the emergence of new disciplines such as film and television studies within the universities. Visual culture breaks down the historical boundaries between high and popular culture and encourages a broad range of disciplinary approaches, including feminist, Marxist, psychoanalytic, structuralist, poststructuralist, postcolonial and post-humanist analysis. Visual culture also encompasses research in art history, and students may choose to concentrate on aspects of art and architecture from the medieval to the postmodern. Postgraduate programs in visual culture give students the possibility of specialisation in Australian art, film and television studies, galleries, museums and the cultural industry, photography and performance.
Visual culture runs a research laboratory seminar program, in which postgraduate students are expected to participate.
Supervision is available in the following areas of research strength:
Supervision is available for PhD and research masters candidates. For further information, refer to the entries for these degrees under `General information' earlier in this section and http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/visual_culture/pgrad/graduate.html. Visual culture programs are suitable for mid-year commencement.
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