Film and television studies - Faculty of Arts

Offered by the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies

Campus availability: Berwick*, Clayton

* NOTE: A minor only is offered on the Berwick campus. Berwick students wishing to complete a major in Film and Television Studies will need to travel to the Clayton campus.

Relevant courses

4014 Diploma in Arts (Film and Television Studies)
0002 Bachelor of Arts (and associated double degrees)
3910 Bachelor of Arts (Global)
1275 Bachelor of Communication (and associated double degrees)
0202 Bachelor of Letters

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 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.

Sequences

First year sequence

A first-year sequence in film and television studies consists of FTV1010 and FTV1050.

Minor sequence

A minor sequence in film and television studies consists of a first-year sequence followed by 12 points at second and/or third-year level chosen from the units listed below.

Major sequence

Students complete a standard major chosen from the units listed below. In addition, with the permission of the head of section, units from another discipline may be counted towards a major or minor in film and television studies.

Units

First-year level

Core

FTV1010 Contemporary television studies
FTV1050 Contemporary film studies

Second/Third-year level

Prerequisites: normally, entry into second and third-year level film and television studies units is dependent on completion of appropriate first and/or second-year level units. However, in special circumstances, it may be possible for students who have completed appropriate equivalent studies to enter these units, with the approval of the head of section.

FTV2010/FTV3010 Television genres
FTV2040/FTV3040 Australian film studies
FTV2050/FTV3050 Remaking film/genre
FTV2070/FTV3070 Women in contemporary cinema: Culture and difference
FTV2080/FTV3080 Teen film and television
FTV2190/FTV3190 Forms of narrative cinema
FTV2220/FTV3220 Alternative film and video
FTV2230/FTV3230 Australian television culture
FTV2240/FTV3240 Cinema institutions: The new hollywood
FTV2670/FTV3670 Asian cinema
FTV2710/FTV3710 Documentary film: An Australian focus
FTV3020 From film theory to video practice
FTV3030 Film and television studies research methodologies
FTV3750 Indonesian and Southeast Asian film and television

Contact details

Telephone enquiries: 9905 2140

Email ECPS.Enquiries@arts.monash.edu.au

Visit http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ecps and http://www.arts.monash.edu/film-tv