ATS3540 - Documentary and realism in film and television - 2018

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

Refer to the specific census and withdrawal dates for the semester(s) in which this unit is offered.

Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

Film and Screen Studies

Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Belinda Smaill

Coordinator(s)

Associate Professor Belinda Smaill

Not offered in 2018

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

FTV2710, FTV3710

Notes

The unit may be offered as part of the Winter Arts ProgramWinter Arts Program (http://www.monash.edu/students/courses/arts/winter-program.html).

Synopsis

Documentary and Realism in Film and Television examines approaches to documentary film and television through addressing questions of realism, reality, truth, indexicality and the boundary between fiction and non-fiction. The theoretical and practical issues discussed in relation to film and television will provide a framework for the examination of a number of important phases in the historical development of documentary and realist codes. The unit will address different styles of documentary, such as direct cinema, autobiography, reality formats and digital documentary and their historical evolution, in addition to the contemporary landscape of documentary production.

Outcomes

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

  1. Identify and classify a range historical and contemporary documentary or realist codes in relation to different media such as cinema, television and digital media.
  2. Evaluate film and television studies methodologies as they pertain to examples of non-fiction.
  3. Apply film and television studies methodologies in order to compare and analyse different documentary or realist forms
  4. Apply library resources and communicate an understanding of research methods in written and oral form.

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.

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