AustLit
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Dispossession, Dreams & Diversity: Issues in Australian Studies
Frenchs Forest
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Pearson Education Australia
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2006
Z1258484
2006
multi chapter work
criticism
(taught in 12 units)
This work introduces key topics and questions about Australia as a society, a culture and a nation. It contains a useful chapter on Australian modernities, which deals in part with literature in the early to mid 20th century.
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Film in Australia : An Introduction!$!Moran, Albert and Errol Vieth!$!!$!Cambridge University Press!$!2006
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Australian film and literature readings: excerpts from key texts!$!Healy, Alice and Jared Thomas and Melinda Graefe (compilers)!$!!$!University of South Australia!$!DUCIER
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Australian National Cinema!$!O'Regan, Tom!$!!$!Taylor and Francis Ltd!$!1996
Description
Australian literature and cinema which dramatises questions of diaspora, gender, sexuality, race, class, multiculturalism, and history; identity and subjectivity in Australian literature and cinema Indigenous voices, diasporic experience, feminist texts; patterns of silence and memory in questions of historiography; publishing, television and cinema industries; government intervention, national and global contexts; exploration of audience, medium, and the 'popular'; questions of adaptation and translation between media, and its significance to cultural capital; cultural landscape in literature and film, from geographical and colonial concepts to interconnections between modes of belonging, history, memory and family; the role of Indigenous writers and filmmakers in the formation of post-colonial literature and cinema.
Assessment
On completion of this course, students should be able to:
Have a postcolonial critical understanding of historical memory and representation in Australian literature and film
Understand key concepts in cultural studies, cinema & literary studies & the connections between them
Understand forms and consequences of national discourse, and its influence on expressive texts, audiences and arts policy
Be able to critically analyse chosen texts and make connections to wider cultural discourse and theory
Be competent in methods of close textual and cultural analysis in written and visual forms
Competency in research skills and ability to develop an effective written argument
Ability for making conceptual connections between representation and cultural issues/identities/subjectivities
Understand the institutional, economic and commercial contexts of the publishing and cinema industries in Australia, and its place in global markets and global cultures.
Book review: Textual Analysis - 500 - 15%; Mixed Mode Participation:
Group presentation (1000 words), Short discussion of 2 topics (2 x 250 words) - 1,500 - 40%; Major essay - 2,500 - 45%
Supplementary Texts
Pung, Alice [ed.] Growing up Asian in Australia 2008
Collins, Felicity and Therese Davis Australian Cinema after Mabo 2004
Elder, Catriona Being Australian : Narratives of National Identity 2007
Heiss, Anita [ed.] and Peter Minter [ed.] and Nicholas Jose[ed.] Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature 2008
Other Details
Offered in:
2009
Levels:
Undergraduate
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