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651
MEDIA 222
: Comics and Visual Narrative2023 Semester Two (1235)
Explores the medium of comics both as an expression of popular culture and as a visual language. Beginning with a history of sequential graphic narrative, the course considers issues around the legitimacy of a popular art form and means of story-telling, as well as the problem of censorship that dominated comics culture especially in the 1950s.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Art History or Media and Screen Studies and 30 points passed, or 30 points in Communication or Transnational Culture and Creative Practice
Restriction: FTVMS 222, 327, MEDIA 327
Restriction: FTVMS 222, 327, MEDIA 327
652
MEDIA 229
: Recorded Music and Media Formats2024 Semester One (1243)
Cultural studies of the sounds and significance of popular recorded music through the media formats in which it has been manufactured, distributed and consumed. Provides a critical introduction to the role of technologies and industries, studios and producers, musicians, music scenes and everyday listening in relation to vinyl records, radio, cassettes, CDs, the MP3 and streaming music.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Media and Screen Studies or ANTHRO 106, and 30 points passed
Restriction: MEDIA 331
Restriction: MEDIA 331
653
MEDIA 231
: Eco/media2023 Semester Two (1235)
Eco/media introduces students to the increasingly important and varied role that nature, environment, and ecology play in media, film, and television studies. Students explore how environmentalism is communicated through various media, how the mediation of flora, fauna and the earth’s atmosphere offers powerful new insights into media texts, and how media production and consumption can be analysed using ecological frameworks.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Media and Screen Studies and 30 points passed, or 30 points in Communication or Global Environment and Sustainable Development
Restriction: FTVMS 231, 332, MEDIA 332
Restriction: FTVMS 231, 332, MEDIA 332
654
MEDIA 235
: Visual Culture2025 Semester Two (1255)
Visual culture is not just part of our everyday lives, it is our everyday lives. This course introduces students to the practices, technologies and knowledges through which visual imagery is constructed and how it circulates. It provides students with the tools for analysing and communicating with various kinds of visual images and objects.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Media and Screen Studies or Art History, and 30 points passed
Restriction: COMMS 302, MEDIA 335
Restriction: COMMS 302, MEDIA 335
655
MEDIA 236
: Horror Media2025 Semester Two (1255)
Explores horror’s aesthetic, experiential, and political dimensions, investigating why and how it has persisted as one of popular culture’s most vigorous and influential genres. Closely considers a range of classic and contemporary films, TV shows and video games, confronting questions of power, affect, mediation and representation.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Media and Screen Studies, and 30 points passed
Restriction: MEDIA 336
Restriction: MEDIA 336
656
MEDIA 236
: Horror Media2023 Semester One (1233)
Explores horror’s aesthetic, experiential, and political dimensions, investigating why and how it has persisted as one of popular culture’s most vigorous and influential genres. Closely considers a range of classic and contemporary films, TV shows and video games, confronting questions of power, affect, mediation and representation.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Media and Screen Studies, and 30 points passed
Restriction: FTVMS 236, 336, MEDIA 336
Restriction: FTVMS 236, 336, MEDIA 336
657
MEDIA 237
: Visualising Screen Stories2025 Semester One (1253)
Investigates the conceptual and practical dimensions of creating visual stories for screen. Encourages students to explore aesthetic principles from film history and visual culture by using the basic tools of contemporary digital media. Students will develop screenplays, storyboards and lookbooks, and work collaboratively to create short smartphone films.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Media and Screen Studies, and 30 points passed
Restriction: SCREEN 201, MEDIA 337
Restriction: SCREEN 201, MEDIA 337
658
MEDIA 237
: Visualising Screen Stories2023 Semester Two (1235)
Investigates the conceptual and practical dimensions of creating visual stories for screen. Encourages students to explore aesthetic principles from film history and visual culture by using the basic tools of contemporary digital media. Students will develop screenplays, storyboards and lookbooks, and work collaboratively to create short smartphone films.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Media and Screen Studies, and 30 points passed
Restriction: SCREEN 201, MEDIA 337
Restriction: SCREEN 201, MEDIA 337
659
MEDIA 238
: Creating Advertising: Text, Image, Story2023 Semester Two (1235)
Explores the connections between visual expression, cinematic storytelling and commercial persuasion. Students analyse promotional posters, advertising copy and video-based advertisements before creating their own persuasive media projects. This course offers a thorough introduction to advertising strategies and industrial practices, and develops students’ skills in promotional messaging and audiovisual storytelling.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in Media and Screen Studies, and 30 points passed
Restriction: COMMS 309, MEDIA 338
Restriction: COMMS 309, MEDIA 338
660
MEDIA 241
: 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: 15 points at Stage I in Media and Screen Studies and 30 points passed
Restriction: MEDIA 341
Restriction: MEDIA 341
661
MEDIA 307
: Hollywood and its Others2024 Semester Two (1245)
An investigation of Hollywood’s interactions with European and Asian cinema, with a particular focus on its industrial, aesthetic, and cultural aspects. Students will gain a historical understanding of Hollywood cinema and how its relationships with other film cultures have shaped the dynamics of global cinema.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Media and Screen Studies or Transnational Cultures and Creative Practice
Restriction: MEDIA 202
Restriction: MEDIA 202
662
MEDIA 314
: Social Media2024 Semester Two (1245)
Addresses issues related to the use of social media and considers in particular the influence of new media corporations such as Facebook, as well as platforms like Twitter, SnapChat, Tinder and YouTube. Explores our cultural practices and social rituals in relation to these peer-to-peer, one-to-many media technologies, and examines this revolution in the media landscape.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Communication or Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: COMMS 204, MEDIA 214
Restriction: COMMS 204, MEDIA 214
663
MEDIA 315
: Action Films2025 Semester Two (1255)
Investigates action films as a genre and a “spectacle” in world cinema. Considers the aesthetic qualities of the genre and its interaction with the wider context. Issues studied include the relationship between conventions and inventions, the combination of visual and aural spectacle, as well as how identity is articulated through the discourse of nation, gender, ethnicity, age and the landscape.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: MEDIA 221
Restriction: MEDIA 221
664
MEDIA 315
: Action Films2023 Semester One (1233)
Investigates action films as a genre and a “spectacle” in world cinema. Considers the aesthetic qualities of the genre and its interaction with the wider context. Issues studied include the relationship between conventions and inventions, the combination of visual and aural spectacle, as well as how identity is articulated through the discourse of nation, gender, ethnicity, age and the landscape.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: FTVMS 221, 315, MEDIA 221
Restriction: FTVMS 221, 315, MEDIA 221
665
MEDIA 323
: Popular Music on Screens2023 Semester One (1233)
Explores relationships between popular music and visual media, such as film, television and online media. Includes analysis of documentaries, feature films, TV shows, music videos and social media platforms. Themes include stardom, fandom, songs, dancing, music genres, technologies and industries. Texts are situated in debates about music media and power relations marked by class, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Anthropology or Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: FTVMS 218, 323, MEDIA 218
Restriction: FTVMS 218, 323, MEDIA 218
666
MEDIA 327
: Comics and Graphic Storytelling2025 Semester One (1253)
Explores the medium of comics both as a visual language and as a means of communication. Beginning with a history of comics, the course considers a variety of storytelling techniques, ranging from comics journalism to graphic medicine, from activism to indigeneity, as well as superheroes, the underground, and manga.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Communication or Media and Screen Studies or Transnational Cultures and Creative Practice
Restriction: MEDIA 222
Restriction: MEDIA 222
667
MEDIA 327
: Comics and Visual Narrative2023 Semester Two (1235)
Explores the medium of comics both as an expression of popular culture and as a visual language. Beginning with a history of sequential graphic narrative, the course considers issues around the legitimacy of a popular art form and means of story-telling, as well as the problem of censorship that dominated comics culture especially in the 1950s.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Communication or Media and Screen Studies or Transnational Cultures and Creative Practice
Restriction: FTVMS 222, 327, MEDIA 222
Restriction: FTVMS 222, 327, MEDIA 222
668
MEDIA 328
: Video Games: Theory and Culture2024 Semester One (1243)
A study of video games as a new media form situated in the broader context of media theory and history. Considers video gaming as an industry, as a leisure activity, and as a site of aesthetic and narrative innovation. The course examines what makes video games a distinctive media form.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Communication or Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: MEDIA 212
Restriction: MEDIA 212
669
MEDIA 331
: Recorded Music and Media Formats2024 Semester One (1243)
Cultural studies of the sounds and significance of popular recorded music through the media formats in which it has been manufactured, distributed and consumed. Provides a critical introduction to the role of technologies and industries, studios and producers, musicians, music scenes and everyday listening in relation to vinyl records, radio, cassettes, CDs, the MP3 and streaming music.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Anthropology or Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: MEDIA 229
Restriction: MEDIA 229
670
MEDIA 332
: Eco/media2023 Semester Two (1235)
Eco/media introduces students to the increasingly important and varied role that nature, environment, and ecology play in media, film, and television studies. Students explore how environmentalism is communicated through various media, how the mediation of flora, fauna and the earth’s atmosphere offers powerful new insights into media texts, and how media production and consumption can be analysed using ecological frameworks.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Communication or Global Environment and Sustainable Development or Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: FTVMS 231, 332, MEDIA 231
Restriction: FTVMS 231, 332, MEDIA 231
671
MEDIA 335
: Visual Culture2025 Semester Two (1255)
Visual culture is not just part of our everyday lives, it is our everyday lives. This course introduces students to the practices, technologies and knowledges through which visual imagery is constructed and how it circulates. It provides students with the tools for analysing and communicating with various kinds of visual images and objects.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Art History or Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: COMMS 302, MEDIA 235
Restriction: COMMS 302, MEDIA 235
672
MEDIA 336
: Horror Media2025 Semester Two (1255)
Explores horror’s aesthetic, experiential, and political dimensions, investigating why and how it has persisted as one of popular culture’s most vigorous and influential genres. Closely considers a range of classic and contemporary films, TV shows and video games, confronting questions of power, affect, mediation and representation.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: MEDIA 236
Restriction: MEDIA 236
673
MEDIA 336
: Horror Media2023 Semester One (1233)
Explores horror’s aesthetic, experiential, and political dimensions, investigating why and how it has persisted as one of popular culture’s most vigorous and influential genres. Closely considers a range of classic and contemporary films, TV shows and video games, confronting questions of power, affect, mediation and representation.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: FTVMS 236, 336, MEDIA 236
Restriction: FTVMS 236, 336, MEDIA 236
674
MEDIA 337
: Visualising Screen Stories2025 Semester One (1253)
Investigates the conceptual and practical dimensions of creating visual stories for screen. Encourages students to explore aesthetic principles from film history and visual culture by using the basic tools of contemporary digital media. Students will develop screenplays, storyboards and lookbooks, and work collaboratively to create short smartphone films.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: SCREEN 201, MEDIA 237
Restriction: SCREEN 201, MEDIA 237
675
MEDIA 337
: Visualising Screen Stories2023 Semester Two (1235)
Investigates the conceptual and practical dimensions of creating visual stories for screen. Encourages students to explore aesthetic principles from film history and visual culture by using the basic tools of contemporary digital media. Students will develop screenplays, storyboards and lookbooks, and work collaboratively to create short smartphone films.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: SCREEN 201, MEDIA 237
Restriction: SCREEN 201, MEDIA 237