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Live Entertainment & Popular Culture - MEFT2351
Media, Film and Theatre

 
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: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 36 units of credit
 
 
Excluded: PFST2009, THFI2010
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Tracks the influence of popular performance genres on contemporary culture, looking at vaudeville, burlesque, radio and 1950s television. Develops theories of popular culture including the discourse of value and applies these to a variety of case studies in contemporary culture and media.

Learning Outcomes

After participating in the lectures, tutorials and project; reading recommended materials and satisfactorily completing all assessment tasks, you should be able to:
  • Demonstrate an understanding of popular comic performance and the contexts in which it produced, performed and consumed
  • Show a broad understanding of the theoretical perspectives by which popular culture, and in particular humour, comedy and comic performance, may be examined
  • Read comic performance from the past and present with a critical understanding of the content, form and cultural context within which it is produced
  • Construct an argument within the conventions of academic essay writing
  • Undertake scholarly research into performance practice and access resources independently
  • Make an academic and/or practical demonstration to peers.

Assessment

  • Participation -10%
  • Popular culture analysis -30%
  • Research Essay - 40%
  • Performance/Report -20%

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