Screen Studies explores the rich history of moving pictures and their transformation into today's rapidly changing screen cultures- from silent films to streaming services. The Screen Studies major focuses on how screens mediate our understanding of the world past and present, and provides students with the tools to analyse how screens of all types shape our daily lives. It prompts students to examine how screen media create meaning, and to explore transnational understandings of cinematic, televisual and new media productions. This will include analysis of how the relationships between cultural, gendered, linguistic and national identities in the context of globalisation influence the audience's understanding of what they see on screens.
Learning Outcomes
- evaluate and compare diverse historical, textual and critical approaches to cinematic, televisual and new media texts;
- analyse screen texts across a range of genres and frameworks;
- apply research skills and methods relevant to the study of screen cultures in national and transnational contexts; and
- articulate knowledge and understanding of the social and cultural contexts in which screen texts are produced.
Requirements
The major requires the completion of 48 units, which must consist of:
A maximum of 12 units of courses at 1000 level
A minimum of 12 units of courses at 3000 level
A minimum of 6 units from completion of courses on the following list:
SCRN1001 Introduction to Screen Studies
GEND1002 Reading Popular Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Studies
A minimum of 12 units from the following list:
SCRN3001 Transnational Screens: Crossing Borders and Identities
SCRN3002 Screening the Real
SCRN3003 Screen Studies Capstone Project
A minimum of 12 units from the following list:
ARTV2059 Immersive Media
ENGL2067 Adaptation: From Text to Screen
ENGL2116 Televisual: Investigating Narrative Television
MUSI2227 Music, Sound and the Moving Image
SCRN2001 Moving Pictures: Genre and Theory in Screen Studies
SCRN2002 Australian Cinema
SCRN2003 Film and History: Hollywood and Beyond
SCRN2005 Screen Cultures
SCRN2107 Cinema from the Spanish-Speaking World
SOCY2170 Media, Technology and Society
A maximum of 18 units from the following list:
ANIP3005 Australian National Internship B
ARCH2052 Archaeology in Film and Fiction
ARTH2050 Photography and Art
ASIA2058 Japanese Popular Culture: Manga, Anime, Film & the Visual Arts
ENGL2077 Creative Writing 2: Story to Script to Performance
HIST2142 Indigenous Memory and History: On stage, page and screen
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