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in the Information Age, Norwood, N.J., Ablex, 1989
Reinecke, I. and Schultz, J., The Phone Book, Ringwood, Penguin,
1983
Wheelwright, E. and Buckley, K., (eds), Communications and the
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1990
LSM300 Cinema Studies
3 hours per week Lilydale Prerequistite: LSMlOO and two
stage two subjects Assessment: class presentation, class
participation, short thesis (3-3500 words)
A stage 3 subject in the Bachelor of Social Science which
also may be taken in the Bachelor of Business and the
Bachelor of Applied Science.
Obiedives
This subject is designed as an introduction to the practice of
film criticism in the context of our ongoing concern with
textual analysis.
Content
Each year different groups of films, representatives of
particular genres or embodiments of particular themes
(science-fiction, screwball comedy, film noir,
Hitchcock's American thrillers, "art" movies, and so
on), are selected for study. They are examined as
individual texts, week by week, but the major function
of our work on them is to be found in the way they
provide a foundation for the introduction of broader
issues to do with films as art works and as cultural
artefacts and with critical practice as a set of specific
cultural discourses.
Key issues to emerge will include:
the role played by structuralist methodologies in the
overturning of the humanist discourse which dominates
more traditional critical work;
the ways in which ideology is inscribed into the works
examined (as well as into the methods of examination);
the ways in which particular kinds of relationships are
created between films and their viewers;
the place occupied by 'the author' in relation to the
formal and thematic organisation of the works which
bear his/her name;
the usefulness of genre - studies;
the role of the star system;
the inbuilt connections between the films, the industry
and the culture in which they exist.
Recommended reading
Bordwell, D. and Thompson, K., Film Art: An Introduction. 4th
en, New York, McGraw Hill, 1993.
Cook, P. (ed.), The Cinema Book: A Complete Guide to
Undentanding the Movies. London, B.F.I., 1985.
Grant, B.K. (ed.), Film Genre Reader. Austin University of Texas
Press, 1986
Ray, R.B., A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema 1930-
1980. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1985
CineACnONI, Cinema Papers, Film Comment, The]ournal of
Popular Film & Television, Screen.
EM301 Electronic Writing
3 hours per week Lilydale Prerequistite: LSMlOO and two
stdge two suljects Assessment: desktop publication.
individual powerpoint class presentations, Internet
publication and reading record.
A stage 3 subject in the Bachelor of Social Science which
also may be taken in the Bachelor of Business and the
Bachelor of Applied Science.
Objectives
The purpose of this subject is to introduce students to the
convergence of print with electronic publishing.
It will include consideration of the impact of what computer
techniques offer, and then demand, from the readedwriter.
It offers students the opportunity to consider the most
advanced state, so far, in the transformation of the word. It
will enable the student to develop electronic writing skills
including desktop publishing, hypermedia and cruising and
using the Internet. Students will have access to and be able
to use an open page on the World Wide Web for this
subject. They will be encouraged to undertake independent
electronic excursions and publication.
Content
Writing and electronic culture;
desktop publishing;
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cruising the Internet: reading;
cruising the Internet: writing;
critiquing the relationship between reading and writing;
cultural possibilities: construction and deconstruction in
electronic technology;
on-line writing activities using MUDS and MOOS;
interactive fiction-writing using 'Storyspace.'
publishing with PageMaker
Recommended reading
Ulmer, G. Heuretics. The logic of Invention. Baltimore, Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1994
Delany, P. and Landow, G. (eds) Hypermedia and Literary Studies.
Cambridge, M.1.T Press, 1991
Bolter, J. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History
of Writing. Hillside, N.J. Earlbaum,l991
LSM302 Information Society: Promises and
Policies
3 hours per week Lilydale Prerequistite: core subject and
two stage two subjects Assessment: 1 major tutorial
presentation, I major research assignment
A stage 3 subject in the Bachelor of Social Science which
also may be taken in the Bachelor of Business and the
Bachelor of Applied Science.
0 biectives
To examine the convergence of broadcasting, information
technology and telecommunications in the context of
political economic and social changes associated with the
notion of an information society.
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