Media, Film and Theatre is a new specialisation combining the three congruent expertises of Media and Communications, Film Studies and Theatre and Performance Studies.

The discipline of Media and Communications provides students with a sophisticated understanding of the history, scope and socio-cultural impact of new media technologies, and of the debates that have accompanied their development and use. It focuses, in addition, on new computer-based multimedia and Australian media industries in relation to globalisation.

The discipline of Film Studies involves the investigation of film from a variety of critical, theoretical and historical perspectives. Students are introduced to key cultural and institutional forces in the cinema industry and are also encouraged to explore the impact of technological and economic, as well as aesthetic, factors on film.

Theatre Studies engages both theory and practice, and may include focus areas such as practical exercises, key concepts and practices of theatre, the study of historical topics such as Shakespeare, contemporary performance theory and practice, new media arts, critical theory, gender and performance, comedy, cinema spectatorship, and creative courses in writing for the stage or performance making.

Performance Studies is a new and exciting area of interdisciplinary study. It subjects the entire spectrum of human performance to critical examination, from the most mundane daily rituals to the conventions of grand opera, with a focus on the new, the hybrid and the technologically advanced modes of performance. Topics that may be studied include theories of physicality from feminism to cybernetics, the anthropology of performance, performance and visual arts including non-Western performance styles and alternative theatre.

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