Screen and Cultural Studies

Screen and Cultural Studies embraces a range of theory, methodologies and area content formerly taught by Cinema Studies and Cultural Studies. The combined program embraces material in the field of film and popular media; screen histories; Australian, Hollywood and Art House cinemas; everyday life; television and entertainment; ethnographic and documentary cinema; computer games; the Internet and the representation of global cultures. The major offers subjects about the nature and history of film and cultural studies. These include film and screen aesthetics; identity and gender; sexuality and spectatorship; the nature of narrative structures and class ideologies. Students encounter a variety of screen media, net-based cultures and popular cultures in order to consider their histories, their significance, and theories that help make sense of how they relate to power, commerce and lived culture today. Through innovative teaching, students in Screen 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 Screen 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 Screen 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.

Screen 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 Arts Foundation Subject

and one of

• CICU10001 Introduction to Cinema Studies
• CICU10002 Culture, Media and Everyday Life

Level 2

• 37.5 points of level 2 Screen & Cultural Studies subjects

Level 3

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

Total 100 points

A minor sequence is made up of the following:

Minor

25 points of study made up of:

• One Arts Foundation Subject

and one of

• CICU10001 Introduction to Cinema Studies
• CICU10002 Culture, Media and Everyday Life

Level 2

• 25 points of level 2 Screen & Cultural Studies subjects

Level 3

• 25 points of level 3 Screen & Cultural Studies subjects

Total 75 points

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

Compulsory subject for Cinema and Cultural Studies major