Global screen Industry
- Assessment Item 1 (50%)
- Assessment Name: Essay
- Type: Summative and formative
- Description: You will write a critical essay on issues related to national and international cinema and the creative practitioners involved.
- Weight: 50%
- Relates to learning outcomes: 1, 2, 3,
- Group or Individual: Individual
- Description:
- Choose ONE of the below essay topics and write a critical essay.
- Choose three Australian films and develop an argument in relation to how they represent ‘Australianness’ or the national character. Consider the peculiarities of how Australian filmmakers have attempted to develop ‘national’ or ‘local’ stories as reflected through cultural themes, characters, use of landscape and cinematic style. If relevant to your argument, discuss how the concept of the national can be problematized in these movies.
- Key issues to consider are:
- outback landscapes
- the binary of bush versus the city
- Larrikin character types and representations of masculinity
- Representation of national values
- Indigenous Australians, culture and relations with settler culture
- OR
- Choose three films from one non-Hollywood cinema, or alternatively one non-Hollywood director, and develop an argument in relation to cultural representation and visual style. Consider how the films’ narratives, themes and iconography connect with broader discussions of cultural identity, ‘the national’ or national cinema.
- Key issues to consider are:
- Settings
- Character types
- Unique social/cultural themes and messages
- Social/cultural values,
- Cultural sensibilities and discourses;
- Language, dialects, accents.
- Requirements:
- Length: 2,500 words +/- 10% (word count includes quotations or references, but does not include the reference list)
- A minimum of 6 academic references
- 1.5 Line spacing
- Writing style – objective and critical academic writing.
- Research – A Reference List should be included which should predominantly consist of respected academic references. You will also need to reference correctly at all times using the Harvard style, acknowledging the source of your ideas and citing quotations correctly. See cite/write. http://www.citewrite.qut.edu.au/. See Resource Materials for CMD articles and book chapters, as well as the Unit Recommended References/Resource Materials list, and the Useful websites link.