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References
Derrnody, S. and Jacka, E. The Screening of Australia. 2 volumes,
Paddington: Currency Press, 1987
Turner, G. National Fictions: Literature, Film & the Construction of
Australian Narrative. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986
Not available to students who haw previously passed
AM204 Media and Australian Society.
AM300 Cinema Studies
No. of hours per week: four houn
Prerequisite: AM 102 and any two stage two
media studies subjects or equivalent
Assessment: continuous
Subject aims and description
The viewing material for this subject is a selection of films
arranged generically (e.g. the musical, or the horror film, or
the western, or the science-fiction film), thematically (the
romantic drama, or the journey film, or the domestic
drama), or stylistically (the films noirs, or the problems of
realism, or 'to cut or not to cut?'). These films will provide
study samples for a pursuit of ideas introduced during the
previous two years of the course into a systematic analysis of
film.
The emphasis is upon the practice of film criticism. Attention
is focused upon the usefulness of structuralist and
semiological studies, and their function in relation to the
humanist discourse which dominates more traditional critical
work. In this context, particular questions to do with the
developing study of film will be on the agenda for ongoing
consideration: for example, the ways in which ideology is
inscribed into the works examined (as well as into the
methods of examination), for various systems of
representation, for the usefulness of the work of the 'frameby-frame
heretics', for the kinds of relationships constructed
between a film and its viewer, for the place of 'the author'
in this process in relation to the formal and thematic
organisation of the works which bear hislher name, for the
usefulness of 'genre' studies, for the function of the 'star
system', and for the relationship between the film, the
industry and the culture in which they exist.
References
Bordwell, D. and Thompson, K. Film Art: An Introduction. 4th ed,
New York: McGraw Hill, 1993
Cook. P (4.) The Cinema Book: A Complete Guide To Undentanding
The Movies. London: B.F.I.. 1985
Grant, B.K. (4.) Film Genre Reader. Austin: University of Texas Press,
1986
Ray. R.B. A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 193G 1980.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985
Schatz, T Hollywood Genres. New York: Random House, 1981
Wood, R. Hollywood From Vietnam To Reagan. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1986
Cine-Action, Cinema Papen, The Journal of Pbpular Film and
Television, Screen, Wide Angle
AM302 Radio Production and Criticism A
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisites: AM1 02 or AM 103 and any two
stage two media studies subjects or equivalent
Assessment: continuous
Subject aims and description
This subject offers the opportunity to make, and critically
assess, broadcast quality radio programmes. Practical skills
covered include recording techniques, interviewing, scripting,
narrating and editing.
There are many approaches to a theoretical investigation of
radio. You can start with the skills used in criticism of
literature and film. But the course also explores what is
special about radio - how speaking differs from writing,
and how listening differs from reading. And it also examines
the way we understand information that we receive via the
ear - as distinct from information we read or see.
Critical work will focus on Melbourne radio, from a mix of
commercial, public and gwernment stations. And these will
be discussed in their historical and contemporary contexts.
Material that is "airworthy" is submitted for use on
community radio stations.
Textbook
Swinburne Radio Production Notes
References
Arnheim, R. Radio. NRN York: Da Capo, 1972
Brecht, B. Radio as a Means of Communication. Screen V20, Nos. 314
Crisell, A. Understanding Radio. London: Methuen, 1986
Enzensberger, H.M. Constituents of a theory of the media in The
Consciousness Industry. New Jersey: Continuum Press, 1974
Foucault, M. The Archeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on
Language. London: Tavistock, 1972
Hicks, M. Radio on Radio. Swinburne, 1985 (Audio Tapes)
Hood, S. Brecht on Radio. Screen VZO, Nos. 314
Johnson, L. The Unseen mice. London: Routledge, 1988
Ong, W. OraQty and Literacy London: Methuen, 1982
AM303 Radio Production and Criticism B
No. of hours per week: four houn
Prerequisites: AM 102 or AM1 03 and AM302,
and any two stage hw media studies subjects or
equivalent
Assessment: continuous
Subject aims and description
This subject entails learning more radio forms and more
about radio production. Students work in groups to produce
a major piece for radio such as a feature documentary or
radio drama. In addition students carry out individual work
exploring the synthesis of theory and practice.
Liaison with community radio stations enables students to
develop material and have it put to air.
The role of radio in our culture is considered from two
perspectives. Firstly, how do the structural features of the
medium affect the creation of its material or "cultural
products"? And secondly, how is meaning created within
radio? What are the "preferred meanings" in what we hear?
Textbook
Swinburne Radio Production Notes
References
As for AM302
AM306 Professional Attachment Program
Fifteen days
Equivalent value - one semester subject
Prerequisites: five media studies subjects
Assessment: continuous
This subject is available during semester two to a limited
number of students. Those selected will be attached, after
consultation, to a variety of media organisations. There they
will be required to work under the direction of the
supervising staff member. The program will be overseen by a
member of the Swinburne media studies staff.
AM307
Information Society: Promises and
Policies
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisites: AMIOZ, AM103 and two stage two
media studies subjects or equivalent
Assessment: continuous