mss2cfi contemporary world cinema
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.
SchoolHumanities and Social Sciences
Credit points15
Subject Co-ordinatorCatherine Padmore
Available to Study Abroad/Exchange StudentsYes
Subject year levelYear Level 2 - UG
Available as ElectiveNo
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Incompatible subjectsMSS3CFI OR CST3CFI OR CST2CFI
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World Cinemas, transnational Perspective
Resource TypeBook
Resource RequirementPrereading
AuthorNatasa Durovicova & Kathleen Newman
Year2010
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PublisherNY & LONDON: ROUTLEDGE
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Remapping World cinema: Identity culture and politics in films
Resource TypeBook
Resource RequirementPrereading
AuthorStephanie Dennison & Song Hwee Lim
Year2006
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PublisherLONDON, WALLFLOWER PRESS
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The oxford guide to film studies
Resource TypeBook
Resource RequirementPrereading
AuthorJohn Hill & Pamela Church Gibson
Year1998
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PublisherNY: OXFORD U PRESS
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Career-focusedNo
Work-based learningNo
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