Screen and Cultural Studies

Screen and Cultural Studies embraces a range of theory, methodologies and a content formerly taught by Cinema Studies and Cultural Studies. The combined Progrm encompasses 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 Program 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 specialisation in Screen and Cultural Studies should:

• Develop broad critical knowledge about the domains of screen 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 screen and contemporary culture;
• Develop analytical and creative skills in relation to screen and cultural studies.

A specialisation in Screen and Cultural Studies in the Graduate Diploma of Arts consists of:

Level 1

• 12.5 points of Level 1 Screen and Cultural Studies subjects

Level 2

• 37.5 points of level 2 Screen & Cultural Studies subjects

Level 3

• 37.5 points of level 3 Screen & Cultural Studies subjects
• Compulsory subject Contemporary Film and Cultural Theory (12.5 points)

Total 100 points

Screen and Cultural Studies: Level 1 Subjects

maximum 12.5 points

Screen and Cultural Studies: Level 2 Subjects

37.5 points

Screen and Cultural Studies: Compulsory Subject

Screen and Cultural Studies: Level 3 Subjects

37.5 points