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 and media studies, 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 as a major and a minor, and in 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.
Major requirements (48 points)
No more than 12 points at level 1 may be credited to the majormajor (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2019handbooks/undergrad/arts-07.html) and at least 18 points must be at level 3.
Students complete:
- Two level 1 gateway unitsgateway units (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2019handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (12 points):
- ATS1304 Introduction to television studies
- ATS1305 Introduction to film studies
- One level 2 cornerstone unitcornerstone unit (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2019handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (6 points) chosen from:
- ATS2529 Australian film and television: Local and global
- ATS2964 Screen theories
- One level 3 capstone unitcapstone unit (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2018handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (6 points) chosen from:
- ATS3969 Screen studies in the digital era
- ATS3970 The audio visual essay
- Four units (24 points) from the remaining cornerstone and capstone units or List A or B, with at least two units at level 3.
Minor requirements (24 points)
No more than 12 points at level 1 may be credited towards the minorminor (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2019handbooks/undergrad/arts-07.html).
Students complete:
- Two level 1 gateway unitsgateway units (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2019handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (12 points):
- ATS1304 Introduction to television studies
- ATS1305 Introduction to film studies
- Two level 2 or 3 units (12 points) as listed within the major including cornerstones, capstones and electives. It is a highly recommended that students complete a level 2 unit before enrolling in a level 3 unit.
Elective list
Units are six points unless otherwise stated.
- ATS2257 Long-form television: "HBO" and beyond
- ATS2290/ATS3290 Global leadership and advanced research program
- ATS2530Not offered in 2019 Film and television genres
- ATS2535Not offered in 2019 Storytelling in film and television: From classical narrative to art cinema
- ATS2538 Film and television institutions
- ATS2845 Screenwriting for media production
- ATS3531Not offered in 2019 Gender and sexuality in film and television
- ATS3536Not offered in 2019 Alternatives in film and television
- ATS3539 Asian cinema and television
- ATS3540 Documentary and realism in film and television
- ATS3583 History and film: Nazi Germany and the Jewish Holocaust
- ATS3983Not offered in 2019 Screen project: From film theory to digital video practice
- ATS3935 Professional practice
International study tours
- ATS2214/ATS3214 Italy on film (in country)
- ATS2295/ATS3295 Screening contemporary Europe
- ATS2315/ATS3315 Journalism and global change in Europe
- ATS3071 France on film
Intending honours students
Students intending to enter honours in this area of study must have completed a major in the discipline, with a minimum of 24 points of study at level 3 to be eligible.
Diplomas
- A0502 Diploma of Liberal Arts
Bachelors
Single degrees
Successful completion of the minor or major can be counted towards meeting the requirements for the following single degree:*
Students in other single bachelor's degrees may be eligible to complete the minor or major by using 24 or 48 points of their free electives.
Double degrees
Successful completion of the minor or major can be counted towards meeting the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts component in the following double degrees:*
- A2004 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music
- A2005 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Art
- B2019 Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Arts
- B2020 Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Arts
- B2038 Bachelor of International Business and Bachelor of Arts
- B2039 Bachelor Marketing and Bachelor of Arts
- B2046 Bachelor of Business Administration and Bachelor of Arts
- C2002 Bachelor of Information Technology and Bachelor of Arts
- D3002 Bachelor of Education (Honours) and Bachelor of Arts
- E3002 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and Bachelor of Arts
- L3003 Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Bachelor of Arts
- S2006 Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts
