Themes and issues important to our increasingly globalised world may be conveyed more effectively through film rather than literature.
Global Context
Fairness and development
What are the consequences of our common humanity?
Students will
- explore rights and responsibilities
- the relationship between communities
- sharing finite resources with other people and with other living things
- access to equal opportunities
- peace and conflict resolution
Key Concept
Perspective
Perspective is the position from which we observe situations, objects, facts, ideas and opinions. Perspective may be associated with individuals, groups, cultures or disciplines. Different perspectives often lead to multiple representations and interpretations.
Perspective influences text, and text influences perspective. Through students’ language and literature studies, multiple perspectives and their effects are identified, analysed, deconstructed and reconstructed. An understanding of this concept is essential in order to develop in students the ability to recognize and respond to over-simplistic and biased interpretations. Seeking and considering diverse opinions and points of view is an important part of developing complex and defensible interpretations.
Related Concept
Genres
A type or category of literature or film marked by certain shared features or conventions.
Conventions are the characteristics of a literary genre. These features may, of course, vary between languages. Each genre has recognizable techniques, referred to as literary conventions, and writers use these conventions, along with other literary features, in order to achieve particular artistic ends.
A study of genres includes essential understandings about conventions of genre: form, style, storyline, characterization, tone, mood, atmosphere, register, visual images and layout, narrative/storytelling, prose (foreshadowing, flashbacks, stream of consciousness in novels and short stories), poetry (metre, rhyme), drama, mythology and other fiction (for example, graphic novels, satires, oral traditions, screenplays, film and episodic television) and non-fiction (for example, autobiography, biography, travelogues, essays, letters, literary non-fiction, speeches).
Examples of conventions in drama may include dialogues, speeches, monologues, soliloquies, asides, stage directions, voice, movement, gesture, use of space, costume, props, lighting, set and sound.
Intertextuality
The connections between one text and other texts, the ways in which texts are interrelated, and the meanings that arise out of their interrelationship.
An overt reference to another text (as in a direct quote from another text) is also an example of intertextuality.
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INQUIRY QUESTIONS
Factual:
Conceptual:
Debatable:
Factual:
- What are the differences and similarities between features of novels and films?
- What elements of novels assist in conveying messages to readers?
- What elements of films assist in conveying messages to viewers?
- How do film makers engage us in a story?
Conceptual:
- How does Language and Literature influence our understanding of cultures and cultural diversity?
- What are the strengths and weaknesses of different information sources?
- Did the novel or film communicate the story and reality “The Rabbit Proof Fence” more effectively?
Debatable:
- Does literature express a range of human emotions, behaviour and issues?
- Can literature enable us to learn about others and ourselves?
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Introduction
Chapter 4 Here is the beginnings of an analysis of the scene where Mr Neville explains his ideas to a group of women in Perth.
The sequence begins in Chapter 4, immediately after the children have been taken.