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MEDIA 340
: Filmmaking2023 Semester One (1233)
A hands-on exploration of the aesthetic and technical challenges of cinematic storytelling. Students are encouraged to reflect on filmmakers’ creative strategies and pursue their own choices in relation to camera, sound, lighting and editing. This limited-entry course involves a blend of lectures and studio-based workshops, and emphasises the links between cinematic ideas and the practical techniques used to realise them.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: SCREEN 200, 302
Restriction: SCREEN 200, 302
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MEDIA 341
: Writing Screen Stories2024 Semester Two (1245)
Focuses on the fundamentals and principles of dramatic writing for screen. Encourages students to explore narrative strategies from film and television to understand the mechanics of screen stories and to write meaningful screenplays in their own voice.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in English or Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: MEDIA 241
Restriction: MEDIA 241
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MEDIA 704
: Documentary: The Real Returns2020 Semester One (1203)
A theoretical and historical study of the documentary, focusing on significant works in the canon. The syllabus includes topics such as reality and representation; documentary modes and forms of address; ethnographies and cultural difference; documentary, politics and human rights.
Restriction: FTVMS 704, 722
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MEDIA 713
: Media, Sound and Music2024 Semester One (1243)
Interdisciplinary scholarship on sound and music media. Topics include: listening and soundscapes; noise/music; popular culture; the politics of sound and music; audio technologies; affect, feelings and emotions; identities; stardom, celebrity and fandom; voices; material cultures; audiovisual media; social media; and the political economy of music.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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MEDIA 713
: Media, Sound and Music2023 Semester One (1233)
Interdisciplinary scholarship on sound and music media. Topics include: listening and soundscapes; noise/music; popular culture; the politics of sound and music; audio technologies; affect, feelings and emotions; identities; stardom, celebrity and fandom; voices; material cultures; audiovisual media; social media; and the political economy of music.
Restriction: FTVMS 713, 730, 738
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MEDIA 713
: Media, Sound and Music2022 Semester One (1223)
Interdisciplinary scholarship on sound and music media. Topics include: listening and soundscapes; noise/music; popular culture; the politics of sound and music; audio technologies; affect, feelings and emotions; identities; stardom, celebrity and fandom; voices; material cultures; audiovisual media; social media; and the political economy of music.
Restriction: FTVMS 713, 730, 738
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MEDIA 713
: Media, Sound and Music2020 Semester Two (1205)
Interdisciplinary scholarship on sound and music media. Topics include: listening and soundscapes; noise/music; popular culture; the politics of sound and music; audio technologies; affect, feelings and emotions; identities; stardom, celebrity and fandom; voices; material cultures; audiovisual media; social media; and the political economy of music.
Restriction: FTVMS 713, 730, 738
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MEDIA 715
: Visualising Difference2024 Semester One (1243)
Critically examines the representation of racial and ethnic difference in cinema and broadcast television. This course explores and discusses how difference has been conceptualised in colonial, post-colonial, and multicultural frameworks using examples from the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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MEDIA 715
: Visualising Difference2023 Semester Two (1235)
Critically examines the representation of racial and ethnic difference in cinema and broadcast television. This course explores and discusses how difference has been conceptualised in colonial, post-colonial, and multicultural frameworks using examples from the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Restriction: FTVMS 715
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MEDIA 716
: Love in/Loving the Cinema2024 Semester Two (1245)
Critically examines the theme of love in the cinema. Looks at why the love story has been such a staple of movie narratives and what films can teach us about love. Also explores the nature of the love of cinema itself, cinephilia.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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MEDIA 716
: Love in/Loving the Cinema2020 Semester One (1203)
Critically examines the theme of love in the cinema. Looks at why the love story has been such a staple of movie narratives and what films can teach us about love. Also explores the nature of the love of cinema itself, cinephilia.
Restriction: FTVMS 716
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MEDIA 717
: Ubiquitous Media2024 Semester Two (1245)
Ubiquitous computing has led to an increasingly mediatised world known as the ‘Internet of things’. With the increased use of tags and sensors, the development of smart environments means that communication and information media increasingly shape our world and define our relations with others. This interdisciplinary course interrogates the philosophical, social and political implications of the move from software to 'everyware’.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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MEDIA 717
: Ubiquitous Media2023 Semester Two (1235)
Ubiquitous computing has led to an increasingly mediatised world known as the ‘Internet of things’. With the increased use of tags and sensors, the development of smart environments means that communication and information media increasingly shape our world and define our relations with others. This interdisciplinary course interrogates the philosophical, social and political implications of the move from software to 'everyware’.
Restriction: FTVMS 717
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MEDIA 717
: Ubiquitous Media2022 Semester Two (1225)
Ubiquitous computing has led to an increasingly mediatised world known as the ‘Internet of things’. With the increased use of tags and sensors, the development of smart environments means that communication and information media increasingly shape our world and define our relations with others. This interdisciplinary course interrogates the philosophical, social and political implications of the move from software to 'everyware’.
Restriction: FTVMS 717
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MEDIA 729
: Film Evil2022 Semester Two (1225)
Explores the theme of evil in the cinema. What films can teach about evil and why it is that conceptions of evil - its nature and source as well as distinctions between natural and moral evil - have formed so much of the subject matter of cinema. The course also considers the proposition that some films may themselves be evil.
Restriction: FTVMS 729
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MEDIA 741
: Time and the Moving Image2024 Semester One (1243)
Explores how moving images mediate our experience of time, from the actualités of early cinema to video games and digital special effects. Addresses the representation and articulation of time across documentary and narrative cinema, experimental film and video, television and new media, with reference to key concepts in philosophy and media theory.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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MEDIA 741
: Time and the Moving Image2023 Semester One (1233)
Explores how moving images mediate our experience of time, from the actualités of early cinema to video games and digital special effects. Addresses the representation and articulation of time across documentary and narrative cinema, experimental film and video, television and new media, with reference to key concepts in philosophy and media theory.
Restriction: FTVMS 741
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MEDIA 741
: Time and the Moving Image2022 Semester One (1223)
Explores how moving images mediate our experience of time, from the actualités of early cinema to video games and digital special effects. Addresses the representation and articulation of time across documentary and narrative cinema, experimental film and video, television and new media, with reference to key concepts in philosophy and media theory.
Restriction: FTVMS 741
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MEDIA 741
: Time and the Moving Image2021 Semester Two (1215)
Explores how moving images mediate our experience of time, from the actualités of early cinema to video games and digital special effects. Addresses the representation and articulation of time across documentary and narrative cinema, experimental film and video, television and new media, with reference to key concepts in philosophy and media theory.
Restriction: FTVMS 741
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MEDIA 743
: Chinese Film Genres2024 Semester Two (1245)
Explores the evolution of major film genres of the Chinese-language cinemas (i.e., cinemas of mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Chinese diaspora). Investigates the formal styles of such genres as melodrama, youth, avant-garde, and documentary as well as how the changing styles reflect some big issues of sociocultural significances.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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MEDIA 743
: Chinese Film Genres2021 Semester Two (1215)
Explores the evolution of major film genres of the Chinese-language cinemas (i.e., cinemas of mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Chinese diaspora). Investigates the formal styles of such genres as melodrama, youth, avant-garde, and documentary as well as how the changing styles reflect some big issues of sociocultural significances.
Restriction: FTVMS 743
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MEDIA 743
: Chinese Film Genres2020 Semester Two (1205)
Explores the evolution of major film genres of the Chinese-language cinemas (i.e., cinemas of mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Chinese diaspora). Investigates the formal styles of such genres as melodrama, youth, avant-garde, and documentary as well as how the changing styles reflect some big issues of sociocultural significances.
Restriction: FTVMS 743
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MEDIA 748
: Special Topic: Documentary Making2022 Semester One (1223)
A hands-on production course in which students produce, direct and edit a 9-12 minute documentary. Emphasis is placed on learning technical and craft aspects of documentary-making informed by the rich and varied tradition of the genre. Students are also required to analyse a series of influential documentaries screened as part of the course.
Restriction: SCREEN 713, COMMS 713
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