Australia Imagined: Identity and Diversity in Australian Film and Literature

Course aim

To enable students to explore representation, identity, ideology and subjectivity in Australian film, literature and popular culture.

Course content

Australian literature and cinema which dramatises questions of gender, sexuality, race, class, multiculturalism, and history; identity and subjectivity in Australian literature and cinema – Indigenous voices, migrant experience, feminist texts; historiography; publishing, television and cinema industries; industry contexts; exploration of audience, medium, and the 'popular'; cultural landscape in literature and film; the role of Indigenous writers and filmmakers in ‘post-colonial’ literature and cinema.

Textbook(s)

Healy, A, Thomas, J & Graefe, M (compilers) 2008, Australian film and literature readings: excerpts from key texts, DUCIER, , University of South Australia

Carter, D 2006, Dispossession, dreams and diversity: issues in Australian studies, Pearson Longman, , Frenchs Forest

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Workshop	3 hours x 13 weeks
EXTERNAL, CITY WEST, DISTANCE EDUCATION
External (Learnonline site)	N/A x 13 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Essay, Learning log/Journal, Review

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 1)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.