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Last updated: 4 June 2021
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Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 5 scheduled online seminars
This unit examines the relationship between art and censorship with a particular focus on transgressive filmmakers, artists, performers and choreographers who have invoked the concept of 'artistic license' to defend their work against charges of sedition, obscenity or blasphemy. The unit will engage students with social, institutional, and discursive rules that operate within censorship debates with a particular focus on censorship and: citizenship; pornography; popular culture; propagandist art; and race. Students will be expected to critique the practices culture jamming, 'hacktivism' and internet censorship. The unit will also investigate government and philanthropic bodies use soft and hard power to exert control over arts and artists.
Appraise and contextualise the role of censorship in debates concerning freedom of speech in art, screen, and culture
GLO8: Global citizenship
ULO2
Locate, integrate and synthesise scholarly and public debates about transgressive art, screen and culture
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
ULO3
Evaluate and organise information on how a range of stakeholders use hard and soft forms of power to exert control over or influence conceptions of artistic license
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link ACA712 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list.
Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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