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Modernism: Text and Screen

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Subject Area: English<br/>This course can also be studied in the following specialisation: Media, Culture and Technology, Film Studies & Creative Writing<br/><br/>This course provides a rich and panoramic survey of the early Twentieth Century’s most dynamic and aesthetically invigorating cultural movement. Moving back and forth between select cinematic and literary texts, the course opens pathways between these two critical Modernist media. It demonstrates how writers were adopting technical ideas from the new mechanical medium, even as artists and poets turned to the cinema to exploit its ‘poetic’ capacities. Navigating a pathway though some of the most exciting avant-garde currents in... -- Course Website

Prerequisites: 30 units of credit at Level 1 including 12 in Level 1 English courses, or 30 units of credit overall including 6 in Level 1 English and 6 in either Level 1 Creative Writing, Film or Media, Culture and Technology courses



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