cst3vac violence and the cinema
VIOLENCE AND THE CINEMA
CST3VAC
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Credit points: 15
Subject outline
The relations between violence, screen violence and audience experience have been controversial since the cinema's inception. In this subject students explore issues relating to "screen violence", focusing on a broad range of independent, popular, fiction and non-fiction films, situating them in a historical, social, cultural and political context. Topics covered include: national discourses on violence; censorship; ideas surrounding catharsis; the relations between and experience of social violence and representations violent actions; the aesthetics of violence and the thematic function of representations of violence; rituals of violence and enchantment; the relations between screen violence, pain, war and torture.
FacultyFaculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points15
Subject Co-ordinatorHester Joyce
Available to Study Abroad StudentsYes
Subject year levelYear Level 3 - UG
Exchange StudentsYes
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Incompatible subjects CST2VAC
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