Screen Media Authorships

Course aim

To consolidate student understanding of the different critical approaches that are involved in researching and analysing screen authorship.

Course content

Authorship will be studied in relation to film and media history, shifting industrial frameworks, competing and converging cross-media forms, fan studies and questions of identify. The course will examine how authorship can be used to approach the figure of the director, the screenwriter, the star, the past and present of the Hollywood industry, television, digital streaming, audiences and fans.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
COMM 1077	Global Film and Television
HUMS 2045	Understanding Popular Culture
INFT 1015	Hollywood Film and Television
COMM 2085	Screen Genres and Media Hybrids

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAGILL
Lecture	1 hour x 10 weeks
Lecture (online)	1 hour x 2 weeks
Tutorial	2 hours x 10 weeks
Film screening - online	2 hours x 10 weeks
EXTERNAL, MAGILL, ONLINE
Lecture	1 hour x 10 weeks
Tutorial	2 hours x 10 weeks
Film Screening - online	2 hours x 10 weeks

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

Assessment

Annotated bibliography, Critical analysis, Essay

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 4A)
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