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Celebrity and the Face in Cinema - COFA0216
 Celebrity

   
   
   
 
Campus: College of Fine Arts Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Equivalent: GEND0216
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band   (more info)
 
   
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

Online Course

Australian actors, directors and cinematographers, play a disproportionately prominent role in the global film industry, given the relatively small size of the Australian population and film industry.

Where does this immense creativity come from? In this fully online course, you will learn how a particular style of performance and cinematography emerged in Australia in the first century of cinema. From early technical experiments in Australian cinema to the casting of performers whose body types differed significantly from European and American cinema in the same period, you will examine how different ideas of beauty and movement developed in Australian cinema. In more recent cinema, you will assess how these earlier ideas affect performance style when actors go global and become 'stars'.

You will also explore ideas about the image more generally, - the idea of charisma and photogeneity, the importance of the face and the close-up in the evolution of the cinematic image and the links which these ideas have to the history of painting, from the icon to abstraction.

You will be engaged in interactive activities and discussion that will support your development of a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of celebrity and a greater appreciation of Australian cinema.

NOTE: This course is conducted via the Omnium system (omnium.edu.au). Students will receive log in instructions via their UNSW email account prior to the commencement of the course.


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