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The media are not just tools of communication, they also shape what can and cannot be said and seen, and hence the sorts of societies we live in. Since the advent of cave painting, social and political power and economic interest have been mediated by diverse forms of representation. In today's modern societies it is important to understand the nexus between power and the media. Never before have the forms of communication been so diverse and the media so pervasive. This unit focuses on the roles that technologies of communication have played, primarily in the contemporary world. Topics include how the limits and differences of oral, written, visual and virtual languages have had an impact on ways of knowing and thinking about the world; the relationship between particular media, regimes of representation and social formations; the development of the image including the invention of perspective, photography and realism; virtuality, digital media and modernity; and theories of social control and media production and resistance.
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This unit introduces the fundamental elements and concepts in the practice and theory of digital media production focusing on digital video. It develops students' creative production skills and considers key critical and theoretical issues relating to their application including exploring technological and cultural convergence; and the interweaving of technology and the humanities.
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This unit is only available to students in the Bachelor of Arts (Communication Studies). It traces the sociohistorical development of cultural industries in Hong Kong from the 1950s to the present, as an expanded case study of communication in practice. Since contemporary Hong Kong culture is inextricably a site of tourism, the unit explores tourism as itself a cultural practice. It also provides an understanding of the development and trends of cultural and tourism industries in Hong Kong (including history, culture, lifestyle, geography and infrastructure).
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This unit introduces students to key elements in the design, production and consumption of games, including digital games and environments of play in the form of Massive Multiple Online (MMO) environments. By critically examining key considerations in the design and consumption of games, including computer games and MMOs, their intellectual history in other media forms, as well as actual social practices associated with such environments of play, this unit requires students to consider how the design of communication and media technologies affects social practices, including work practices, in the widening digital landscape. While a critical consideration of key texts and theorists forms an important element of the unit, students also have to engage and learn to work in an applied game design environment.
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The honours program involves four 6-point honours units and a 24-point honours dissertation; honours can be completed over 12, 18 or 24 months.
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The honours program involves four 6-point honours units and a 24-point honours dissertation; honours can be completed over 12, 18 or 24 months.
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The honours program involves four 6-point honours units and a 24-point honours dissertation; honours can be completed over 12, 18 or 24 months.
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The honours program involves four 6-point honours units and a 24-point honours dissertation; honours can be completed over 12, 18 or 24 months.
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This unit comprises a 10,000- to 12,000-word dissertation. Alternatively, with approval from the Chair of Communication Studies, students can include a creative component in their thesis. The unit is normally completed within one semester. It is undertaken as part of the Master of Communication Studies which is available to students who have successfully completed the Graduate Diploma in Communication Studies.
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The experience of modern life—of constant change, consumerism, fashions, popular culture, technological advances, city life—can be traced back to the late eighteenth century, when radical Enlightenment writers attacked all forms of tradition and the industrial revolution began to entirely re-shape society. But at the same time that Enlightenment thinkers were writing optimistically about the liberating power of human reason, popular Gothic novels were introducing sensational visions of human nature as irredeemably irrational and bodily, as erupting in the most weird and gross behaviours. These opposing discourses of modernity are examined through the various mutations and interactions that they underwent in the nineteenth century, when such 'decadent' writing as that of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde defined the experience of the city as central to modern life. As well as focusing on the rise of city life and mass consumer culture during the period 1780 to 1900 and the ways in which anxieties about gender, sexuality and social power emerged in texts of the period, the unit examines the legacy of modernity for popular culture today.
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Print media, television, cinema, hypertext: what connects and distinguishes these forms of meaning? This unit takes as its focus a comparison of diverse narrative forms—print narrative (prose fiction), film narrative (movies) and screen narrative (television and the Web). It examines the exciting ways in which each kind of text can be 'read' and also considers the aesthetic and cultural links between different forms of communication. The unit reads contemporary media critically and analyses how issues of culture and power—including concepts such as identity, sexuality and the 'locations' of meaning—are encoded in both traditional and new forms and practices. Texts include examples of contemporary prose fiction, movies, television and website material.
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This unit provides students with an understanding of creative writing concepts and techniques which seem especially pertinent to the present. This understanding is developed through an examination of the ideas of contemporary writers and through workshop discussion of students' own writing. Students may choose to write fiction or poetry or scripts or a mixture. The unit is open to all students, whether experienced creative writers or not.
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Romances are beautiful lies, always entertaining, but also ideologically loaded. This unit examines a range of stories of love and war, of mystery and imagination, with an emphasis on their social and political implications in different historical eras from the Middle Ages to the postmodern present. The materials used include films and an exciting variety of written texts including a modern romance novel.
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This unit looks at Australia’s unique writing and films. Is Australia a 'frontier' country, a wild-west of the kind that is portrayed in the film The Proposition, written by Nick Cave, or in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia? Is Australia a nation of immigrants, a multicultural melting pot of distinct traditions and histories? What about the Indigenous population of Australia? The unit also looks to poems and fiction and films to find answers to these questions. More importantly, it looks to writers and film-makers to help students better frame the questions themselves.
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American literature is often engaged with issues of injustice and the texts in this unit provide a powerful repository of this engagement. They share a preoccupation with crime, in particular the larger cultural crimes of brutality and inequity. They are texts that have contributed to and in some cases arisen from the struggle for human rights in America. The unit looks at regulation and violation in the literature of a country with a complex but strong historical commitment to equity, through literature that in some cases exists in order to uphold human dignity and freedom.
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Working against privileged expressions of gender, race, class and sexuality are a diversity of resistant and subversive performance practices, carving out spaces for the marginalised. This unit explores the ways in which certain marginalised 'worlds' are expressed in and through live and media-generated performance. Performance practices from a range of theoretical, practical and sociopolitical contexts, such as postcolonial, queer, feminist and community-devised theatre, are studied. All theatre units offer a mixture of theory and practice—through tutorial discussions, essays, workshop activities and performances. All students have the opportunity to participate in either a full-length public production at the Dolphin Theatre or in shorter devised 'in-house' performances in the Bradley Studio at the end of semester. Participation can be either as a performer or in a production capacity.
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Postmodernism was thought by many to be definitional of late twentieth-century transnational culture, from advertising to architecture, nouvelle cuisine to the novel. This unit explores some of the dimensions of the 'postmodern' with reference to a number of narrative texts. Particular attention is paid to the relationships between key postmodern theories and contemporary art, popular culture, literature and film texts.
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World War I was seen by many young artists of the time as a cultural as well as a political crisis—as the culmination and damnation of traditional Western culture. This disillusionment led to the experimental art practices that became known collectively as the avant-garde which found their most radical and tumultuous expressions in the period between 1914 and 1930. This unit offers an opportunity to focus on modernist texts, by placing them in historical context and tracing the ways in which they contest established ideas of the reader, personal identity, sexuality, perception and aesthetics, and explore technology and popular culture. In keeping with modernism's internationalism the unit looks at texts from England, Europe and the USA, and ranges through literary and filmic genres.
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How do people 'read' nature? Is there a 'natural' way to understand the 'real'? This unit explores issues in the textual mapping of the relations between the natural, the technological and the semiotic. It assumes that however 'natural' nature itself may be, the human understanding of it is necessarily constructed. Of particular interest in this unit are five different modes of such construction in contemporary fiction: nature as innately significant; apocalyptic visions of urban and ecological collapse; nature as gendered; nature as transformed within the circulation of media images; and utopian (and dystopian) visions of nature 'superseded' by computer-generated virtual reality.
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This unit provides a critical introduction to the distinctively twentieth-century art form of the film by focusing on three main conceptual areas—subjectivity, time and narrative. Its wide-ranging choice of historical and contemporary texts chart some of film's most exciting discoveries and provide a grounding in the formal nature of film, its peculiar discourses and its relations to the literary. The unit also examines the ways in which film develops and mutates its own genres, often out of popular literary forms. It looks at the rivalries and tensions between words and images, the populist and the avant-garde, ideas and sensationalist action.
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