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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

304281 (v.4) Screen Actualities 501

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Area: Department of Film and Television
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 304279 (v.3) Film and Television 511 - History of Screen Language or any previous version
Syllabus: This unit explores those program types that have their content located in the real, or socio-political world, commencing with the first films, through the development of news reels, documentaries, and then television formats such as news and current affairs. The unit follows the historic development of production technologies and how they have impacted on the way program makers have sought to represent the real world on cinema, television and computer screens. The various theoretical approaches to the analysis and criticism of actuality program formats, including modernist and postmodernist approaches are introduced to students and within that framework, the relationship between filmmaker, subject and audience is explored.
Field of Education: 090300 Studies in Human Society (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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