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Monash University

Film and television studies - Faculty of Arts

Offered by the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies

Film and Television Studies offers a variety of units in the film and television cultures of Australia, Asia, United States and Europe.

The first-year units FTV1050 and FTV1010 are designed to provide a foundation for all subsequent studies in film and television.

Film and television units involve historical, textual and critical approaches to film and television, and related video and new screen technologies. Film and television studies cover Australian, Asian and European national cinemas, contemporary popular Hollywood and its institutions, alternative film and video, documentary film, Australian television, popular television genres, and video practice.

Throughout the course of studies, emphasis will be given to a variety of historical, critical and theoretical methods of analysis appropriate to the study of film and television, including formal, semiotic and psychoanalytic approaches, institutional, reception and cultural studies approaches, consideration of issues to do with the intersection of ideology and culture, the representation of gender, race and class, and questions concerning the relations between film and television and new technologies.

Students are encouraged to consider combining their film and television studies with other relevant and compatible units and/or disciplines in the Faculty of Arts. Examples are drama and theatre studies, comparative literature and cultural studies, English, history, women's studies, and a range of relevant Asian and European languages.

For information on the units required for a major, minor or honours in film and television studies, refer to the `Areas of study' section on the Arts faculty website at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/current/coursework/study-areas/.

Relevant courses

  • Diploma in Arts (Film and Television Studies)
  • Bachelor of Arts (and associated double degrees)
  • Bachelor of Arts (Global)
  • Bachelor of Communication (and associated double degrees)
  • Bachelor of Letters

Contact details

http://www.arts.monash.edu/film-tv/

Telephone inquiries: 9905 2140 or Email ECPS.Enquiries@arts.monash.edu.au or visit http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ecps/.