CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
MSS2CFI
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
Students in this subject are introduced to a cross-cultural exploration and history of world cinema produced from the 1960s to the present. In this subject students will study a number of key auteurs, movements and manifestoes, by looking at a range of case studies in contemporary global cinema that includes: American films; films of the independent sector; the French New Wave; Hong Kong films; Iranian allegorical cinema; Korean horror films; the cinema of exile and diaspora; amongst many others. This subject also examines some of the debates and theoretical issues in World Cinema and explores the film festival art cinema circuit. It also provides students with practical experience in the curation of a film festival program of world cinema films. This subject will address the Global Citizenship Essential through the assignment in which students will curate a film festival program that draws on a diversity of perspectives, values, cultural and political circumstances that are represented in films from many world cinema producing countries.
School: Humanities and Social Sciences (Pre 2022)
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: Catherine Padmore
Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 2 - UG
Available as Elective: No
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Capstone subject: No
Subject particulars
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Prerequisites: N/A
Co-requisites: N/A
Incompatible subjects: MSS3CFI OR CST3CFI OR CST2CFI
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Learning resources
World Cinemas, transnational Perspective
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Prereading
Author: Natasa Durovicova & Kathleen Newman
Year: 2010
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Publisher: NY & LONDON: ROUTLEDGE
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Remapping World cinema: Identity culture and politics in films
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Prereading
Author: Stephanie Dennison & Song Hwee Lim
Year: 2006
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Publisher: LONDON, WALLFLOWER PRESS
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The oxford guide to film studies
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Prereading
Author: John Hill & Pamela Church Gibson
Year: 1998
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Publisher: NY: OXFORD U PRESS
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Career Ready
Career-focused: No
Work-based learning: No
Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A
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Location of WBL activity (region): N/A
WBL addtional requirements: N/A