ACF213 - Contemporary Asian Cinema: Texts, Contexts and Experiences
Unit details
Year: | 2023 unit information |
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Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Previously coded as: | Nil |
Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Sean Redmond Trimester 3: Sean Redmond |
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 - campus: | 1 x 2-hour seminar per week |
Content
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.
ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
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ULO1 | Differentiate the various contemporary Asian cinemas with respect to form, representations and modes of production. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO8: Global citizenship |
ULO2 | 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. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO8: Global citizenship |
ULO3 | Critically analyse and effectively explain the different ways that Asian cinema engages with local, national and transnational industries and audiences. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO8: Global citizenship |
ULO4 | Critically investigate and reveal the ideologies, values and affective strategies that have been employed in self-chosen films via close textual analysis. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking |
Assessment
Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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Assessment 1 - Close Textual Analysis | 800 words | 20% | Week 4 |
Assessment 2 - Production History Report | 1600 words | 40% | Week 8 |
Assessment 3 - Written Essay | 1600 words | 40% | Week 11 |
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 ACF213
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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