Rebel Screen: 1960s Projections

Subject 107-446 (2009)

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Credit Points: 25.00
Level: 4 (Undergraduate)
Dates & Locations:

This subject is not offered in 2009.
Time Commitment: Contact Hours: A 2 hour film screening and a 2 hour seminar per week
Total Time Commitment: 4 contact hours/week, 6 additional hours/week. Total of 10 hours per week.
Prerequisites: Admission to PGDip or Honours in Cinema Studies
Corequisites: None
Recommended Background Knowledge: None
Non Allowed Subjects: None
Core Participation Requirements:

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Subject Overview: Experimental and Avant-garde movements of the 1960s and beyond are the focus of this subject. The critical, theoretical, and innovative methodologies generated in the 1960s will be studied through a broad cultural range of underground, alternative, and experimental screen texts (including Australian, European, Asian, African, and American, and South American examples). The subject will explore the basis for current network and vector concepts of screen communication through the knowledge generating functions and virtual realms of experimental screen media. Students will encounter a range of cultural styles arising from 1960s countercultures and political movements, including information structures, black power, decolonisation movements, revisions of hierarchies of gender and sexuality, music and drug cultures on screen. On completion of the subject, students should have a knowledge of theories of structuralism, feminism, and post-structuralism, and their relationship to the viewer/participant of multiple forms of screen culture and technologies (including the mobile screen, computer screen, experimental and ephemeral screen situations and art installations, the televisual screen, the cinematic screen, concert screen and projections). This subject will provide a foundation for any further study in fields of postmodern and contemporary theories of visual culture.
Objectives: At the conclusion of the subject, students should have a firm and articulate comprehension of the common theoretical objectives of the 1960s screen cultures. Students will become conversant with theories of structuralism, feminism and post-structuralism, and be able to recognize their relationship to the viewer/participant of multiple forms of screen culture and technologies.
Assessment: A team case creative study and presentation equivalent to 1000 words 25% (commencing at the beginning of the semester and due at the end of the semester), and a 4000 word research based blog or essay 75% (due at the end of semester).
Prescribed Texts: A subject reader will be available.
Breadth Options:

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.
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Generic Skills:
  • This subject provides critical skills in analysing visual and theoretical material at second and third year level.
  • Methodologies of critical and theoretical analysis generated from 1960s counter-cultural social, political, cultural, and aesthetic implications of screen cultures will be considered.
Notes: Students who have completed 107-239 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.
Related Course(s): Diploma in Arts (Gender Studies)

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