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Course Description
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Course Name
Film in the Media Landscape
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Host University
UNSW Sydney
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Location
Sydney, Australia
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Area of Study
Film Studies, Mass Communications, Radio/Television/Film, Telecommunications
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Language Level
Taught In English
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Prerequisites
24 units of credit in the Film Studies stream or 24 units of credit in the Media, Culture and Technology stream -
Course Level Recommendations
Upper
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Credit Points
6 -
Recommended U.S. Semester Credits3 - 4
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Recommended U.S. Quarter Units4 - 6
Hours & Credits
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Overview
This course examines the shifting place of film in the media landscape by tracing the ways that film has responded to and archived its interactions with other mechanical and electronic media (including radio, TV, the turntable, the telephone, and digital capture and synthesis). By examining the history of media convergences, it thereby places "new" new media in a broader historical framework. The course examinhs how individualefilms, genres, and formations of cinema have addressed residual, emergent, and dominant media through their formal and stylistic elements, thematic concerns, and exhibition practices. By comparing different forms of moving image media, the course also explores how practices of archiving media texts and technologies through various storage media shape understandings of time and historical change.The course is structured around three key topics:(1) history of forms of media convergence,(2) residual and obsolete media,(3) media times and historiography.
Course Disclaimer
Courses and course hours of instruction are subject to change.
Credits earned vary according to the policies of the students' home institutions. According to ISA policy and possible visa requirements, students must maintain full-time enrollment status, as determined by their home institutions, for the duration of the program.