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ATS2536
Faculty of Arts
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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSLRefer to the specific census and withdrawal dates for the semester(s) in which this unit is offered.
Notes Previously coded FTV2220 SynopsisAlternative film and video raises questions of aesthetics and politics to consider a varied body of work, one considered 'alternative'avant-garde, experimental, independentin relation to 'dominant' cultural practice and value. This unit begins with the new American cinema of the sixties (poetic, structural and underground film) and European counter-cinema of the seventies. It goes on to look at recent alternative film theory and practice, including trash cinema, post-punk cinema, American indie film, and recent digital video. Filmmakers considered include Brakhage, Snow, Anger, Kuchar, Smith, Warhol, Waters, Jarmusch, Zedd, Benning, Jarman, Korine, Gallo, and many others. ObjectivesBy the completion of this unit students will be expected to: recognise that alternative film must be understood in relation to mainstream or dominant film practice; identify a material, social and political difference between historically specific moments of alternative (avant-garde, experimental or independent) film theory and practice; identify 'political modernism' of the sixties and seventies as a discursive field produced by specific practices of film criticism and associated institutions; translate this formulation of political modernism into a more contemporary engagement of film practice with theory and the aesthetic characteristics of (post)modernism. Assessment
Essay (3000 words) : 60% Contact hoursOne-2 hour seminar and One-2 hour screening per week This unit applies to the following area(s) of study
Film and television studies PrerequisitesOne unit at first-year level in Film and television or approved discipline |