Overview | Summary of Courses

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ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences

Film in all its genres and formats, from celluloid to the new media worlds of digital FX, continues to be a leading art form and a major means of communication of our time. The Film and New Media minor is designed to provide students with an in-depth knowledge of film culture by addressing questions such as: how do we read films within the new digital environment? What expectations do we bring to films that belong to a particular genre? What do we really mean when we talk about a “documentary film”? What characterizes different national cinemas? How do films reflect their political and social contexts? And how is cinema evolving and conditioning – and being conditioned by - the new interactive screen spaces of digital media? These and other questions are among the many you’ll explore in doing Film Studies at the ANU.

 

Learning outcomes

1. Closely analyse films, and interpret and communicate ideas about film and new media to both specialist and non-specialist audiences using disciplinary language and conventions.
2. Recognise and reflect on the social, political, historical and cultural contexts of films and new media, and the effects of films, new media and film culture on society and politics.
3. Identify and describe the markers and characteristics of film and new media genres, their intersections and evolution. 
4. Evaluate ideas and concepts in film and new media by thinking creatively, critically and reflectively.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of the materials, technologies and techniques used in the creation of films.

Requirements

This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:

A maximum of 12 units from the completion of 1000 level courses.

 

6 units from the completion of the following compulsory course:

FILM1002 – Introduction to Film and New Media (6 units)

 

18 units from the completion of courses from the following list:

ANCH2021 – Ancient World in Film (6 units)

ANTH2049 – Filming Cultures (6 units)

ARTS3000 – Internship (6 units)

ASIA2080 – Korean Film: History, Culture and Society

ENGL2055 – Shakespeare and Film (6 units)

ENGL2066 – Australian Film: Ned Kelly to Mad Max (6 units)

FILM1003 – Introduction to Film Genres (6 units)

FILM2002 - Play into Film: The Cinematic Adaptation of Theatrical Texts (6 units)

FILM2003 - European Cinemas, European Societies (6 units)

FILM2004 - Postwar European Cinema: Films and Directors (6 units)

FILM2005 - Moving Pictures: Cinema and the Visual Arts (6 units)

FILM2006 - United States Cinema: Hollywood and Beyond (6 units)

FILM2008 - Film and Music (6 units)

FILM2009 - Postwar Italian Cinema (6 units)

FILM2010 - Documentary: Real Life in Virtual Space (6 units)

FILM3046 - German Cinema (in English) (6 units)

GEND2031 - Cinema in Southeast Asia: Genre and Cultural Identities (6 units)

GERM2046 - German Cinema (6 units)

GERM3046 - German Cinema (6 units)

PASI2004 - On the Beach: film and history in the Pacific (6 units)

PHIL2102 - Film as Philosophy (6 units)

NEWM2002 - Screens, Art and Performance (6 units)

NEWM2006 - Digital Cultures (6 units)

NEWM2007 - Convergences in New Media: Readings in New Media Studies (6 units)

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