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2025 unit information
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1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar 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 unit provides students with an opportunity to critically explore contemporary Asian cinema with a focus on their national and transnational formations. The unit will explore what constitutes Asian cinema through close textual analysis and by looking at production and reception contexts. Questions of authorship, aesthetics, genre, film movements, censorship, ideology, pleasure and affect will be addressed. The unit looks at popular film, art and auteur cinema, mobile and extended cinema, animation, and the film documentary.
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO8: Global citizenship
Research and report on key aspects of the production history of an Asian film genre, including a focus on a film director, cinematographer, sound designer, actor/star, film genre, or film movement.
Critically analyse and effectively explain the different ways that Asian cinema engages with local, national and transnational industries and audiences.
Critically investigate and reveal the ideologies, values and affective strategies that have been employed in self-chosen films via close textual analysis.
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 ACF213 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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