ACF206 - Contemporary Topics in Screen Cultures
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | ALC216, AMC236 |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | 1 x 1-hour online lecture per week 1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per week |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | 1 x 1-hour online lecture per week 1 x 2-hour online seminar per week |
Content
Film festivals are of increasing importance to filmmakers, industry professionals, audiences, and scholars alike. Emerging over 70-years ago to drive the global distribution of film, festivals now play a pivotal role in our understanding of local and international screen culture. Festivals also inform our appreciation of the creative industries economy. This unit offers a critical introduction to film festivals today. It explores major international festivals (such as the Berlinale, Cannes, Venice, and the Sundance Film Festival) and also addresses smaller and alternative festival circuits such as identity-based, genre, web, and retrospective film festivals in Australia and across the world. Topics we will explore include: different types of film festivals, festival hierarchies and circuits and the global festival landscape, festival programming and organisation, issues of film production, distribution and exhibition, the relationship between festivals, economies and cities, festivals and cultural capital, and the future of festivals.
Unit Fee Information
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