Overview

This specialisation is for students commencing from 2023. Choosing to pursue a minor in Cinema Studies enables you to explore a range of theoretical, historical and cultural frameworks to understand how and why moving image cultures continue to shape global media industries in the 21st century. Our courses enable you … For more content click the Read More button below. Develop your critical voice while building skills in close and careful film analysis and deepening your understanding of the intersections between popular entertainment, politics and aesthetics.

Learning Outcomes

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Demonstrate creativity, rigour, adaptability, independence, and cultural reflexivity in the application of cinema studies concepts and methods.
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Critically analyse the evolving cinema landscape in relation to historical, social, political, material, and theoretical contexts, including settler colonialism.
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Engage in film analysis that takes cultural difference as crucial to cinema audiences, industries, and contexts.
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Engage and situate diverse First Nations knowledges and cinema cultures, and the historical, cultural, social, and political contexts that produced them.
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Deploy a critically informed approach to ethics, justice, and social engagement in media practices, industries, and contexts.
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Evaluate and apply research methods appropriate to distinct media forms, practices, industries, and audiences.
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Collaborate effectively with local and international communities of practitioners across media contexts.
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Available in Program(s)
Single degree program(s) in which this specialisation is available:

Bachelor of Media - BMedia3341 - Media

Specialisation Structure

You must complete 36 UOC.

You must take 6 UOC at level 1 and 30 UOC at levels 2 and 3, including at least 6 UOC at level 2 and at least 12 UOC at level 3.

Level 1 Prescribed Electives 6 Units of Credit:

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