Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Language Pedagogy
- Code
- BMI-ANGD17-CP3bE.05
- Title
- Australian History and Politics - Theory and Analysis: New Trends in Australian Cinema
- Usual semester
- Spring
- ECTS
- 6
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- This course aims to: · investigate the multiplicity of Australian experience as expressed in contemporary films after 1990 · identify major trends in Australia filmmaking · familiarise students with the context of cinema production in Australia · learn about the issues underlying the social problems depicted in the films · familiarise students with some techniques how to „read” films
- Course content
- · Australian Cinema in the 1990s (Strictly Ballroom, Muriel’s Wedding) · Current issues in Australian Society (Unfinished Sky, Charlie’s Country) · Representation of disabilities in Australian Cinema (Mary and Max) · Contemporary Aboriginal filmmakers (Warwick Thornton, Rachel Perkins) · Possibilities of reconciliation (Jindabyne) · Australia and the Pacific (Mr Pip)
- 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
- Reading assignments: the relevant chapters from: · Collins, Felicity and Theresa Davis. Australian Cinema After Mabo. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. · Langton, Marcia. „I Heard it on the Radio and I Saw it on the Television: an Essay for the Australian Film Commission on the Politics and Aesthetics of Filmmaking by and about Aboriginal People and Things. Sydney: Australian Film Commission. 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.