Australian Film and Literature

Coordinator: 
Healy, Dr Alice
Code: 
COMM 3048
Year: 
2011
Levels: 
Undergraduate

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.

Organisational Body: 
The Unaipon School
Assessment: 

Book Review (500 words)

Journal (1500 words) : 2 x 500 word discussions of chosen texts + 1 x 500 word creative response to chosen text.

Essay (2500 words)

Additional Information
Offering: 
Semester 2
Offered History: 
2010, 2009
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