Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Language Pedagogy
- Code
- BMI-ANGD17-CP2bE.04
- Title
- Australian Culture and Civilis - Theory and Analysis: Nationality and Identity in Australian Film
- Usual semester
- Spring
- ECTS
- 6
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- This course aims to: investigate the notions and representations of Australian nationality and identity in film/critically examine a range of texts as representations of Australian national experience, engage with important issues pertaining to Australian national identity, provide tools for students to examine Australian cultural values encoded in film
- Course content
- representations of Australian white masculinity as it is constructed in relation to war and nature, representations of the colonial/postcolonial context, representations of the relationship of national identity and multiculturalism and immigration, attempts to revise history and national identity to include indigenous people, emergence of a global, postmodern cinema
- Assessment method
- Assessment of the course will be based on: a) Attendance, participation b) short presentation on a selected topic c) seminar paper (8-10 pages) d) viewing journal
- Bibliography
- Reading assignments: the relevant chapters from: O’Regan,Tom. Australian National Cinema. London; New York:Routledge, 1996. Turner, Graeme. National Fictions: Literature, Film, and the Construction of the Australian Narrative. Sydney, Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1986. Turner, Graeme. Making it National: Nationalism and Australian Popular Culture. St.Leonards: Allen and Unwin, 1994. various journal articles related to the topics