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ATS2530

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 20 April 2024
Monash University

Undergraduate - Unit

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelUndergraduate
FacultyFaculty of Arts
OfferedCaulfield First semester 2014 (Day)
Clayton First semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)Dr Constantine Verevis

Notes

Previously coded FTV2050

Synopsis

From their beginnings, films and television series have endlessly repeated the same stories. This unit explores the concept of genre, remaking and adaptation in relation to a selection of contemporary and historical film and television texts. This unit describes genre as a complex situation that is enabled and limited by the related roles and practices of industry, critics and audiences. This understanding of genre is developed through three broad approaches to genre as: industrial category-deals with issues of production, including commerce and authorship; textual category, considers plots and structures; critical category, investigates issues of reception, audiences and institutions.

Outcomes

On the successful completion of this unit students will be able to:

  1. Recognise that meaning is not simply an intra-textual property of a particular text but an effect of historically specific inter- and extra-textual material technologies or institutions;
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of intertextuality in film and television studies and its relation to genre through the categories of quotation, allusion, translation and adaptation;
  3. Translate the in-principle concept of intertextuality into an understanding of the particular institutional structures that maintain the categories of film and television series, serials, remakes and sequels;
  4. Display an ability to critically engage with written and visual texts in a clear and confident manner in both written and oral presentation.

Assessment

Written assignments: 75%
In-class visual test: 25%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Constantine Verevis

Workload requirements

One 2-hour screening per week
One 2-hour seminar per week

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Film and screen studies

Prerequisites

A gateway unit in Film and Screen Studies or a related discipline approved by the unit coordinator.