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Description

Traces the emergence and significance of Australian screen cultures. Studies the development of the Australian film industry, including analysis of the economic, social and political factors and the myths which have shaped the industry. Studies the role of television in shaping the experience of modern Australia and its place in the world. Looks at a number of of non-mainstream forms of audio-visual production in Australia.

Note: Excluded FILM2002.

Assessment

For MEFT and AUST 2028 Students

Weekly Concept Notes (x8) 300 words each 40%

Participation 20%

Course Essay or Research Report 2000 words 40%

For Gen Ed Students only: Gen Ed 0803 Assessment (only)

Participation Presentation 20%

Weekly Concept Blog (x3) 300 words 40%

Course Essay or Research Report 1500 words 40%

Supplementary Texts

Caputo, Raffaele & Geoff Burton (1999) Second Take: Australian Filmmakers Talk, AFC

Collins, Felicity & Therese Davis (2004) Australian Cinema After Mabo, CUP

Craven, Ian, ed. (2001) Australian Cinema in the 1990s, Frank Cass

Crimmings & Graham (eds) Short Site: Recent Australian Short Film, ACMI, 2004

Cunningham, S. Contemporary Australian Television

Cunningham, S. and Jacka, E. Australian Television and International Mediascapes

Dermody, S., and Jacka, E. The Screening of Australia Vols. 1 and 2.

Dermody, S. and Jacka, E. The Imaginary Industry.

Gelder, Ken & Jane Jacobs (1998) Uncanny Australia: Sacredness & Identity in a Postcolonial Nation, MUP

Gibson, Ross (1992) South of the West: Postcolonialism and the Narrative Construction of Australia, IUP

Haynes, Roslynn D. (1998) Seeking the Centre, Cambridge Uni Press

McFarlane, B. et.al., eds. Oxford Companion to Australian Film.

McFarlane, B. and Mayer, G. New Australian Cinema.

McKee, Alan. Australian Television: A Genealogy of Great Moments

Moran, Albert and Tom ORegan, eds. (1989) The Australian Screen. Penguin

Moran, Albert and Tom ORegan, eds. (1985) The Australian Film Reader, Currency Press

Moran, Albert. Projecting Australia.

Murray, Scott, ed. (1994) Australian Cinem,.Allen & Unwin

ORegan,.Tom (1996) Australian National Cinema, Routledge

ORegan, Tom. Australian Television Culture

Rayner, Jonathan (2000) Contemporary Australian Cinema: An Introduction. Manchester Uni Press

Pike, A. and Cooper, R. Oxford Australian Cinema 1900-1977.

Reid, M.A. Long Shots to Favourites.

Reid, M.A. More Long Shots: Australian Cinema Successes in the 90s.

Stratton, D. Last New Wave

Stratton D. The Avocado Plantation

Turner, Graeme (1994) Making It National: Nationalism & Australian Popular Culture, Allen & Unwin

Tulloch, John. Australian Television: Programs, Pleasures & Politics

Verhoeven, Deb, ed. (1999) Twin Peeks: Australian and New Zealand Feature Films, Damned Publishing

Must See Films

Australia (2008); Happy Feet;

Crocodile Dundee I (1986), II (1988), III (2001); Sirens;

Babe (1995) & Babe Pig in the City (1998); The Cars That Ate Paris;

Mad Max I (1979), II (1981), III (1985); Proof;

Strictly Ballroom; Georgia;

The Man from Snowy River; Kiss or Kill;

Muriels Wedding; Camera Natura;

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Last Days of Chez Nous;

Young Einstein; Love And Other Catastrophes;

Gallipoli; Devils Playground;

The Castle; Life;

Shine; The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith;

The Wog Boy; Romper Stomper;

Head On; Vacant Possession;

The Piano (1993); Yolngu Boy;

Ned Kelly; Backroads;

Looking for Alibrandi; Three Dollars;

My Brilliant Career; Tom White;

Crackerjack; Dirty Deeds;

Moulin Rouge; Chopper;

Lantana; Two Hands;

The Dish; FJ Holden;

Rabbit Proof Fence; The Year My Voice Broke;

Breaker Morant; Dead Calm;

Alvin Purple; Heat Wave;

Children of the Revolution; Stan and Georges New Life;

Stork; The Boys;

Tracker; In the Winter Dark;

Bad Boy Bubby; The Well;

Epsilon; Love Serenade;

Cunnumulla; Eternity;

Undead; The Year of Living Dangerously;

Puberty Blues; Somersault;

Wolf Creek; Look Both Ways;

Theyre a Weird Mob; Angel Baby;

Picnic at Hanging Rock; The Interview;

Sunday Too Far Away; Wildside (ABC TV);

The Last of the Knucklemen; Dogs in Space;

Ghosts of the Civil Dead; The Proposition;

Underbelly I & II

Other Details

Alternate code - AUST2028

Offered in: 2008, 2007, 2006
Current Campus: Kensington Campus
Levels: Undergraduate
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