Undergraduate - UnitATS3531 - Watching film and television: Gender, sexuality and spectatorship

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Film and Screen Studies
Offered	Not offered in 2015
Coordinator(s)	Ms Janice Loreck

Synopsis

Watching Film and Television: Gender, Sexuality and Spectatorship surveys different ways in which scholars have understood the relationship between film and television and the viewer. Consideration will be given to contemporary and historical theorisations of film and television viewing such as those pertaining to spectatorship, the public sphere, audience studies and/or the senses. These examples and methods will be analysed in relation to the specific concerns of subjectivity that may include a focus on gender and/or race and/or sexuality. A range of different contemporary and historical screen examples will be discussed and viewed throughout the semester, encompassing film and television from Australian, the USA and other national contexts.

Outcomes

On the successful completion of this unit students will:

Be able to demonstrate an understanding the historical development of key theoretical approaches to spectatorship and subjectivity;
Given examples of film and television, be able to identify how the formal and narrative codes of the two mediums correlate with different modes of spectatorship;
Be able to compare and analyse different theoretical approaches to subjectivity and spectatorship with regard to select examples of film and television;
Be able to critically analyse written and filmic texts in a clear and confident manner in both written and oral presentation.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Chief examiner(s)

Ms Janice Loreck

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

Film and screen studies

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of second-year Arts units. As this is a third-year level unit, it is recommended that students only take this unit after they have completed at least one second-year level unit in Film and screen studies.

Prohibitions

FTV2070, FTV3070