FTVMS 322

The South Seas on Screen

Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for FTVMS 322.

Description

This course examines how Hollywood has imagined the South Seas and in turn how these images have shaped contemporary screen production in the Pacific. Students will gain a sense of Hollywood history as well as key issues in minority media production and indigenous film. This course addresses developments in New Zealand and in the Pacific region. Key concepts explored in this course include colonialism, romanticism, exoticism, orientalism, gender and race, postcolonialism, sovereignty and self-determination, political economy, ambivalence, subversion, parody, imagined communities, imaginaries and the politics of representation.

Availability 2017

Not taught in 2017

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Associate Professor Sarina Pearson

Reading/Texts

Assessment

Coursework + exam

Points

FTVMS 322: 15 points

Prerequisites

30 points at Stage II in Media, Film and Television

Restrictions

FTVMS 209