Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BBI-ANGF17-214E
- Title
- Introduction to Australian Cinema
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- Published semester
- 2026/27/1
- ECTS
- 5
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- This course aims to: · familiarise students with the history and context of Australian film · identify major thematic and generic concerns in Australian filmmaking · familiarise students with the context of cinema production in Australia · to shed light on the issues underlying the social problems depicted in the films provide tools for the analysis and appreciation of Australian cinema
- Course content
- Course content: · Contextual history of Australian film · Australian Cinema in the international stage · Representations of the land in Australian movies · Bush-city conflict · Issues of ethnicity and alternative sexual orientation in movies of the 1990s (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) · Asian representations in Australian film (Japanese Story) · The changing representations of Aborigines on the screen (Jedda, Night cries) · Multicultural topics and genres · The relationship between the ’bush’ and identity
- Assessment method
- Assessment of the course will be based on: a) Attendance, participation b) short presentation on a selected topic c) seminar paper (6-8 pages) d) short film review, viewing journal
- Bibliography
- · Kuna, Franz. „Understanding Australian Culture: The approach through film.” Experiencing a Foreign Culture: Papers in English, American and Australian Studies. Ed. by Werner Delanoy, Johann Köberl, Heinz Tschachler. Tübingen: Narr, 1993. · O’Regan, Tom. Australian National Cinema. London: Routledge, 1996. · Rayner, Jonathan. Contemporary Australian Cinema: An Introduction. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. · Turner, Graeme. Film as Social Practice. London: Routledge, 1993. · Wimmer, Adi. Australian Film: Cultures, Identities, Texts. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007.