Cinema & Cultural Studies

Cinema and Cultural Studies embraces a broad field including studies of popular media and screen culture; Australian, Hollywood and art house cinema; everyday life, television and entertainment; consumption; computer games; the Internet; and global cultures. The major offers subjects which are concerned with questions of media histories and narrative structures, film and screen aesthetics, identity and gender, sexuality and spectatorship, and class and ideology. Students encounter a variety of screen media, net-based cultures and popular cultures in order to consider their histories, their cultural significance, and theories that help make sense of how they relate to power, commerce and lived culture today. Through innovative teaching, students in Cinema and Cultural Studies encounter new ways of interpreting and analysing contemporary media and culture. Academic staff in the discipline are specialists in screen cultures and media histories; entertainment cultures; gender and sexuality; postcolonialism, European cinemas, cultural policy and media technologies.

Students who complete a major in Cinema and Cultural Studies should:

• Develop broad critical knowledge about the domains of cinema and cultural studies;
• Acquire competency in the main concepts and developed in the disciplines of cinema and cultural studies;
• Develop the confidence to produce conceptually and empirically informed accounts of cinema and contemporary culture;
• Develop analytical and creative skills in relation to cinema and cultural studies.

Cinema and Cultural studies is available as both a major and minor sequence.

A major sequence is made up of the following:

Major
Level 1
25 points of study made up of:

• One Interdisciplinary Foundation Subject

and one of

• 107-132 Introduction to Cinema Studies
• 106101 Culture Media and Everyday Life

Level 2

• 37.5 points of level 2 Cinema & Cultural Studies subjects

Level 3

• 25 points of level 3 Cinema & Cultural Studies subjects
• Compulsory capstone subject Contemporary Film and Cultural Theory

A minor sequence is made up of the following:

25 points of study made up of:

• One Interdisciplinary Foundation Subject

and one of

• 107-132 Introduction to Cinema Studies
• 106101 Culture Media and Everyday Life

Level 2

• 25 points of level 2 Cinema & Cultural Studies subjects

Level 3

• 25 points of level 3 Cinema & Cultural Studies subjects

Students who commenced in 2008 may complete a cultural studies major or minor, or a screen studies major or minor and should refer to the 2008 Handbook entry for the BA for the requirements.

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 3 Capstone Subject