Breaking the Screen

Overview

This unit promotes an interrogation into the limits of screen culture and screen production. It promotes analysis into the ways that film and television has attempted to extend and innovate within screen media. The program seeks to confront the ways that film and television makers have challenged the status quo in terms of aesthetics, narrative and form, as well as in challenging traditional notions of taste, quality and value. This unit also aims to investigate the role of the screen as a mode for activism, propaganda and social and political change.

Learning outcomes

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Assessment

Content

• Paracinema and questions of value, quality and taste in screen media
• Technology, community, engulfment, ephemeral screen experiences
• Extensions of the screen through sound, image and narrative
• Screen cultures and questions of morality
• Sex and violence on screen in the cinema and in our homes
• Censorship in relation to cultural values
• Recognising alternative histories in film and television
• Activism, post-coloniality, and the impact of political cinema
• Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Verbal communication
• Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Communicating using different media
• Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Information literacy