Courses in film and television studies are taught in the Department of Visual Arts. A full major is offered in film and television studies, and it is possible to go on to do a fourth honours year and to take postgraduate work at diploma, MA and PhD level. Courses are predominantly critical, historical and theoretical. The full range of courses is designed to introduce students to methods of analysis and a range of issues regarding Australian film and television, contemporary popular film from the USA, film history, European and Asian cinema, and film from the third world. Topics studied include the changing structure of the film and television industries in Australia, independent and alternative film movements both here and overseas, the evolution and development of film form, semiotic and psychoanalytic approaches to the study of film, national cinemas, alternative frameworks for the funding of television production, and issues in Australian film culture.
In 1997 we expect to introduce a sequence of courses in screen production: `Screen production I' and `Screen production II'. These courses will cater both for performing arts students and for film and television students who want to develop a literacy in screen production, using video, as a practical complement to their critical, historical and theoretical studies.
Visual Arts department students may combine art history/theory subjects with film and television subjects (or vice versa), as part of their major or minor sequence, and comparative literature and cultural studies students may take some courses in film and television studies as part of their major or minor sequence in comparative literature and cultural studies (see the entry for comparative literature and cultural studies). Below we provide a list of the range of courses offered. For more detailed information consult the section on film and television studies within the entry for visual arts.
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