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Based on the Communication and Media Studies field, this course has been designed to prepare educated persons in Australia to make meaningful contributions to a better and wider understanding of the history of Australian cinema. Students who have successfully completed this course will have an appropriate base of understanding and skills to enhance their work and social lives as well as their postgraduate study and research.

CMS8006 OzFilm: Image and Industry is a course in the Master of Arts (MARA) and Master of Professional Communication (Communication & Media Studies), and in the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree. The course offers text and industry studies of Australian mainstream films from the pioneering period of the late 1800s to the present day, with special emphasis on the so-called "New Wave" period of Australian cinema in the 1970s and 1980s. The course theorises Australian cinema as expressing cultural iconicities that are frequently in commercial competition with foreign - especially Hollywood - films. The course critically examines both textual and institutional issues in the context of the perennial Australian dream of a robust, critically respectable and commercially profitable national cinema. Students will enhance their research skills while considering these aspects of Australian cinematic history.

On completion of this course students will be able to:

1. define and discuss critically the intertwining creative and financial problems of the historical Australian film industry;
2. demonstrate specialised knowledge to identify and discuss critically the theoretic, industrial and contextual origins of Australian New Wave cinema;
3. demonstrate advanced and integrated research skills to conduct textual analyses of New Wave Australian films.