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ACA712 - Transgressive Acts in Cinema, Art, Performance

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2022 unit information

Important Update:

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Last updated: 4 March 2022

Enrolment modes:Trimester 2: Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 2: Rohan Jones
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with: Nil
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

Scheduled learning activities - cloud:

Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 5 scheduled online seminars

Content

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.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Appraise and contextualise the role of censorship in debates concerning freedom of speech in art, screen, and culture

GLO4: Critical thinking

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

GLO3: Digital literacy

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO8: Global citizenship

These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1 (Group) - Group Seminar/Presentation/
Demonstration
1500 words
or equivalent
30% Information not yet available
Assessment 2 - Case Study 1250 words 25% Week 5
Assessment 3 - Creative Work Proposal 2250 words 45% Information not yet available

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.

Learning Resource

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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