Course

Cinemas and Cultures - ARTS3063

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: School of the Arts and Media

Course Outline: School of the Arts and Media

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: 24 units of credit in the Film Studies stream or 24 units of credit in the Media, Culture and Technology stream

Equivalent: MEFT3205

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

Subject Area: Film Studies
This course can also be studied in the following specialisation: Media, Culture and Technology

This course introduces students to the study of cinema in intercultural and cross-cultural context. It includes approaches to subcultural cinemas in the West, minority cultures in non-Western societies, the development of narrative and aesthetic conventions beyond "classic" Western styles and genres, the significance of cinema as an art-form, and as a creative element in local, national and transnational history and politics.


Media, Film and Theatre

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