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 Documentary Film and History - HIST2036
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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 36 units of credit
 
 
Session Offered: See Class Timetable
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
  

Description

Documentary film texts raise important questions about representations and constructions of the past. Provides a critical introduction to these issues through an exploration of texts central to the history of documentary film across the twentieth century. Fields discussed include: photography and historical memory, ideology and practice, propaganda and the state, representations of war, ethnographic film, environmental and natural history, popular memory and gender, narrative forms, cinema verite, dramatised documentaries, and television and contemporary history.

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