Film Studies - FILMA14760
Stream Summary
Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science
School: School of the Arts and Media
Contact: School of the Arts and Media
Program: 4760 - Arts / Law
Award(s):
Bachelor of Arts (Major)
Information valid for students commencing 2013.
Students who commenced prior to 2013 should go to the Handbook's Previous Editions
Stream Outline
The Film Studies major stream offers a comprehensive and innovative course of study that provides students with the critical and practical skills to understand, analyse, and work with the most popular art form of the 20th and 21st centuries. Film Studies courses include historical, theoretical, and cross-cultural studies of film as well as practical courses in video production. Our Film Studies major stream provides students with intensive study of the discipline, while also enabling them to understand the relations between the discipline and its concerns and other disciplinary fields in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Film Studies contributes to and has its origins in a range of disciplinary fields in the Humanities, including Philosophy and Critical Theory, Aesthetics, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Sociology and Gender Studies. For this reason Film Studies is a discipline that enables students to explore a range of debates in the Humanities as they inform—and are informed by—the film and media landscape and its impact on contemporary life. Our courses enable students to study film and related media forms in their historical, cultural, and technological contexts and provide students with an international perspective on the place and history of film in the global media culture.
Subject-specific aims of the major stream:
Subject-specific aims of the major stream:
- To teach the methods of analysis and thinking specific to the discipline of Film Studies
- To generate a broad understanding of the historical development of film as both a specific medium and as part of a constantly evolving media landscape
- To develop an understanding of the questions and issues pertinent to an Australian production context
- To develop an understanding of the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of film form
- To acquire an understanding of a range of national and international contexts for filmmaking
- To promote skills in both practical and theoretical analysis of film texts and film culture
- To develop in students an ability to link creative production with theoretical and critical knowledge
Stream Structure
A student who wishes to gain a major stream in Film Studies must complete 54 units of credit including 12 uoc at level 1, at least 18 uoc at level 2 including the core course ARTS2061 Contemporary Approaches and at least 18 uoc at level 3 including the capstone course.
Level 1
- ARTS1060 Introduction to Film Studies (6 UOC)
- ARTS1062 Hollywood Film (6 UOC)
Level 2
Students must complete the core course:
- ARTS2061 Contemporary Approaches (6 UOC)
AND at least two of the following courses:
- ARTS2063 National Cinemas (6 UOC)
- ARTS2064 Film Genres (6 UOC)
- ARTS2065 Working with Image and Sound (6 UOC)
The following courses from other subject areas can also be counted towards the Film Studies major stream:
- ARTS2036 Modernism (6 UOC)
Level 3
- ARTS3061 Video Project (6 UOC)
- ARTS3062 Aspects of Film History (6 UOC)
- ARTS3063 Cinemas & Cultures (6 UOC)
- ARTS3064 Film Styles and Aesthetics (6 UOC)
Film Studies Capstone course (Compulsory)
- ARTS3065 Film Studies Capstone (6 UOC)
