UNSW Handbook Course - Teaching Cinema: History and Aesthetics

Teaching Cinema: History and Aesthetics - MEFT5203


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of English, Media and Performing Arts
	Course Outline: http://media.arts.unsw.edu.au//
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 8
	EFTSL: 0.167 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 4
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: Enrolment in plan MEFTES8225 or MEFTES5225
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Studies popular film, including action genres and animation in relation to students' experience of 'movies' as entertainment. Examines approaches to analysing and interpreting films by focussing on questions of fantasy and 'realism'. Considers the visual and aural qualities of the cinema, while literary models of film 'appreciation' are also evaluated.

Note: A screening program of twenty historically important narrative films is part of the course. Includes many films in the current HSC syllabus.

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