Note: Excluded FILM2002.
Weekly Concept Notes (x8) 300 words each 40%
Participation 20%
Course Essay or Research Report 2000 words 40%
For Gen Ed Students only: Gen Ed 0803 Assessment (only)
Participation Presentation 20%
Weekly Concept Blog (x3) 300 words 40%
Course Essay or Research Report 1500 words 40%
Collins, Felicity & Therese Davis (2004) Australian Cinema After Mabo, CUP
Craven, Ian, ed. (2001) Australian Cinema in the 1990s, Frank Cass
Crimmings & Graham (eds) Short Site: Recent Australian Short Film, ACMI, 2004
Cunningham, S. Contemporary Australian Television
Cunningham, S. and Jacka, E. Australian Television and International Mediascapes
Dermody, S., and Jacka, E. The Screening of Australia Vols. 1 and 2.
Dermody, S. and Jacka, E. The Imaginary Industry.
Gelder, Ken & Jane Jacobs (1998) Uncanny Australia: Sacredness & Identity in a Postcolonial Nation, MUP
Gibson, Ross (1992) South of the West: Postcolonialism and the Narrative Construction of Australia, IUP
Haynes, Roslynn D. (1998) Seeking the Centre, Cambridge Uni Press
McFarlane, B. et.al., eds. Oxford Companion to Australian Film.
McFarlane, B. and Mayer, G. New Australian Cinema.
McKee, Alan. Australian Television: A Genealogy of Great Moments
Moran, Albert and Tom ORegan, eds. (1989) The Australian Screen. Penguin
Moran, Albert and Tom ORegan, eds. (1985) The Australian Film Reader, Currency Press
Moran, Albert. Projecting Australia.
Murray, Scott, ed. (1994) Australian Cinem,.Allen & Unwin
ORegan,.Tom (1996) Australian National Cinema, Routledge
ORegan, Tom. Australian Television Culture
Rayner, Jonathan (2000) Contemporary Australian Cinema: An Introduction. Manchester Uni Press
Pike, A. and Cooper, R. Oxford Australian Cinema 1900-1977.
Reid, M.A. Long Shots to Favourites.
Reid, M.A. More Long Shots: Australian Cinema Successes in the 90s.
Stratton, D. Last New Wave
Stratton D. The Avocado Plantation
Turner, Graeme (1994) Making It National: Nationalism & Australian Popular Culture, Allen & Unwin
Tulloch, John. Australian Television: Programs, Pleasures & Politics
Verhoeven, Deb, ed. (1999) Twin Peeks: Australian and New Zealand Feature Films, Damned Publishing
Must See Films
Australia (2008); Happy Feet;
Crocodile Dundee I (1986), II (1988), III (2001); Sirens;
Babe (1995) & Babe Pig in the City (1998); The Cars That Ate Paris;
Mad Max I (1979), II (1981), III (1985); Proof;
Strictly Ballroom; Georgia;
The Man from Snowy River; Kiss or Kill;
Muriels Wedding; Camera Natura;
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Last Days of Chez Nous;
Young Einstein; Love And Other Catastrophes;
Gallipoli; Devils Playground;
The Castle; Life;
Shine; The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith;
The Wog Boy; Romper Stomper;
Head On; Vacant Possession;
The Piano (1993); Yolngu Boy;
Ned Kelly; Backroads;
Looking for Alibrandi; Three Dollars;
My Brilliant Career; Tom White;
Crackerjack; Dirty Deeds;
Moulin Rouge; Chopper;
Lantana; Two Hands;
The Dish; FJ Holden;
Rabbit Proof Fence; The Year My Voice Broke;
Breaker Morant; Dead Calm;
Alvin Purple; Heat Wave;
Children of the Revolution; Stan and Georges New Life;
Stork; The Boys;
Tracker; In the Winter Dark;
Bad Boy Bubby; The Well;
Epsilon; Love Serenade;
Cunnumulla; Eternity;
Undead; The Year of Living Dangerously;
Puberty Blues; Somersault;
Wolf Creek; Look Both Ways;
Theyre a Weird Mob; Angel Baby;
Picnic at Hanging Rock; The Interview;
Sunday Too Far Away; Wildside (ABC TV);
The Last of the Knucklemen; Dogs in Space;
Ghosts of the Civil Dead; The Proposition;
Underbelly I & II