Unit Code:	CST2CFI
Alternative Unit Code:	CST3CFI
Unit Short Title:	CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
Credit Points:	20.0
Unit Description:	In this unit, through close textual and theoretical analysis, students will study contemporary cinema from The French New Wave to Art House Cinema to the latest Hollywood blockbusters. Topics to be considered include: theories of visuality; debates about popular culture; post-modern strategies; digital aesthetics; identity and biography; cyborgs and new technology; the road movie; new Hollywood cinema; authors of the independent sector; and contemporary art house cinema from Hong Kong, Japan, Spain, France, Germany, Taiwan and Iran. Films screened will be selected from the work of Godard, Kubrick, Cronenberg, Assayas, Wong Kar-Wai, the Coen Brothers, De Palma, Lynch, Mann, Almodovar and Kiarostami among others.
Prerequisites:	For CST2CFI: 30 credit points of first year cinema studies or coordinator's approval. For CST3CFI: 20 credit points of second year cinema studies or coordinator's approval
Class Requirements:	one 4-hour screening/seminar per week
Work Experience Indicator:	Not undertaking work experience in industry
Available to 'Study Abroad' students:	Y

Assessment:

Assessment Type	%	Comments
one 1,500-word essay	35
one 3,500-word essay	65	Third year students will be expected to show a greater achievement of discipline specific skills in their written work than second year students.

Readings:

Reading Type	Title	Author	Publisher
Recommended	Post-theory reconstructing film studies	Bordwell, D., Carrol, N. (eds)	University of Wisconsin Press 1996

Unit Streams:

Teaching Period	Unit Class	Location
2   27-JUL-09   30-OCT-09	Day	BUNDOORA

Unit Coordinators:

Title	First Name	Last Name	Location	Primary Coordinator
Ms	Anna	Dzenis	BUNDOORA	Y