AustLit

The course examines the recent trend towards transnationalism in global cinema. It looks at how various nations have attempted to compete and survive in the marketplace by appealing to international audiences while at the same time trying to preserve a sense of their own national identity. The course covers European, Asian and Latin cinemas. Incompatible: 2109ART Contemporary Cinema Incompatible: 3306FMC Contemporary Cinema Incompatible: 3306AMC Contemporary Cinema.

This course is important within the teaching of screen studies in that it allows students to explore and understand the contemporary formation of global cinema and some current nostaligic televisual trends. It explores not only how other countries have competed with Hollywood and differentiated themselves, by locating them within their within historical, political, economic contexts and aesthetic practices, but also addresses what is at stake when national borders are becoming increasingly blurred within a global sphere. In particular, the course looks at the diasporic communities and construction of shifting identities in a transnational environment in relation to history, memory and nostalgia.

The design of the course is such that the curriculum allows for students to both develop historical knowledges and exercise creative intelligence through its teaching and assessment.