Film and screen studies

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

This major emphasises a variety of historical, critical and theoretical methods of analysis appropriate to the study of the moving image, including formal, semiotic and psychoanalytic approaches, institutional, reception and cultural studies approaches. You will consider issues to do with the intersection of ideology and culture and 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 screen studies with other relevant and compatible units and/or areas of study such as Communications, Sociology, History, Literary studies, Theatre, Performance and Language studies.

Availability

Film and screen studies is listed in A2000 Bachelor of Arts at Caulfield and Clayton and 0202 Bachelor of Letters at Clayton as a major or minor, and A0502 Diploma of Liberal Arts at Caulfield and Clayton as a major.

Outcomes

In addition to achieving the broad outcomes of their course, students successfully completing this major will be able to:

• critically engage with contemporary and historical practices of cinema and television theory and criticism
• identify and evaluate screen theory and scholarly debates in relation to contemporary and historical screen media examples and methods, including digital cultures
• analyse the relationship between moving image culture, such as film and television, and social contexts.