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Details for ENG302 Film and Television

This subject examines film and television in the context of Filmic/Dramatic studies and the Australian English Curriculum. Students will learn how textual analysis is applied to visual texts and explore the form, function, devices, and style of seminal film and televisual texts from the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Students will also discover the trans textual links and influences between film, television, and literature. 

Quick Stats

  • Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
  • Course code: ENG302
  • Credit points: 10

Subject Coordinator

Contact studentsupport@ac.edu.au for more information.

Prerequisite

Unit Content

Outcomes

  1. Assess the intertextual and transtextual nature of multimedia texts.
  2. Analyse and compare multimedia texts through the identification of the structural, conventional, and stylistic features they use.
  3. Examine evidence to develop, support, and justify a critical interpretation of a multimedia text/s.
  4. Analyse how ideas, perspectives, values, and world views are represented in texts and how they are received by audiences.

Subject Content

  1. Introduction to Film, Television, and Multimedia
  2. Modernist Narratives and Cinematic Innovation (Citizen Kane) 
  3. Seeing, reading and interpreting (Rear Window) 
  4. Adaptation and transformation (Wuthering Heights – Margot Robbie) 
  5. Transtextuality and cultural translation (Macbeth) 
  6. Media, reality and self-reflexive texts (The Truman Show) 
  7. Representation, identity and cultural narratives (Gran Torino) 
  8. Genre, adaptation and myth (True Grit) 
  9. Television as contemporary literature (Succession)
  10. Nostalgia, intertextuality and convergence culture   
  11. Conclusion – interpreting multimedia texts  

This course may be offered in the following formats

  • Face to Face (on site)
  • E-Learning (online)
  • Intensive
  • Extensive

Please check the timetable to see when this subject will next be offered at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

  • Reflective Journal (20%)
  • Minor Essay (30%)
  • Major Essay (50%)

Prescribed Text

There is no prescribed text. Students are responsible for accessing the texts featured in this unit in the same way they would be for books, novels, etc. The Moodle page will outline where these texts can be located (AC library, YouTube, streaming services, etc.). Trainers may select text options in consultation with the cohort.