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Media, Film and Theatre
Media Lab

Description

This specialisation combines the three congruent expertises of Media, Film Studies and Theatre and Performance Studies.

Media
The discipline of Media 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.

Film Studies
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 and Performance Studies
Theatre and Performance 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, dance ethnography, cinema spectatorship, and creative courses in writing for the stage or performance making.

Doctor of Philosophy in Practice-Based Research
The School of English, Media and Performing Arts makes available a restricted number of places to graduate students wishing to undertake a PhD by means of Practice-Bases Research, (eg theatre direction, film direction, dance choreography and the production of media artefacts). For further information please go to http://empa.arts.unsw.edu.au/futurestudents/phdpractice.html

Please see the table below for more information.



Media, Film and Theatre can be studied as 

Specialisation At the Level of Plan
Media, Film and Theatre Research MEFTAR2353
   

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