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FILM1001: Hollywood: Art, Industry, Entertainment

2024 unit information

Since the early 20th century, Hollywood has dominated film screens around the world. This unit considers America's 'dream factory' as profit-oriented industry, mass entertainment, and cinematic art form. It covers key historical developments including the star system, Production Code censorship, New Hollywood, and the franchise film.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Film Studies

Code FILM1001
Academic unit Film Studies
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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None
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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ARHT1003
Assumed knowledge:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. Identify elements of Hollywood’s classical style and commercial aesthetic, and analyse their effects in terms of narrative and symbolic meaning, audience experience, and ideology;
  • LO2. Demonstrate an understanding of the history of Hollywood cinema across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and its most significant technological, industrial, and aesthetic transformations;
  • LO3. Critically reflect on Hollywood cinema as mass entertainment and cinematic art form;
  • LO4. Draw on the concepts and issues explored in the unit, as well as further independent research, to construct arguments and perspectives on Hollywood cinema.
  • LO5. Engage meaningfully with other students and tutors in structured, planned and impromptu class-room discussions

Unit availability

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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2024
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2020
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2021
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2021
Normal day Remote
Semester 2 2022
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2022
Normal day Remote
Semester 2 2023
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney

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