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2025 unit information
ACM120, ALC106
Nil
1 x 1-hour on-campus lecture per week
1 x 2-hour on-campus practical experience (screening) per week
1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per week
1 x 1-hour online lecture per week
1 x 2-hour online practical experience (screening) per week
1 x 2-hour online seminar per week
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
This course introduces students to the history of screen culture. It highlights the interests that today shape the ways we interpret and understand our shared cinematic past. Topics explored include early cinema, film genres, feminist film, queer cinema, experimental film and transmedia. We use seminal films to explore these topics.
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
Describe the development of cinema through its historical movements and milestones.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
Analyse different historical films and film movements
GLO4: Critical thinking
Interpret the different styles and movements from screen history using different audio-visual formats
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO5: Problem solving
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 ACF104 can be found via the University Library.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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